The United States of America called on Tunisian President Kais Saied to form a government and appoint a prime minister, at a time when the resignations shake the Ennahda movement, amid street movements, as the opposition political spectrum called for a rejectionist demonstration today in the capital, Tunis.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price said, in a statement published by the embassy in Tunis on Saturday, that Washington is concerned that transitional measures are continuing in Tunisia without a clear end.

He called on the president to set a timetable for reforms with other political partners and civil society.

About two months after announcing the exceptional measures, Saeed issued on the 22nd of this month a presidential order that abolished the work of the chapters of the constitution regulating the legislative and executive authorities, and included temporary provisions for regulating the authority.

Saeed will assume the full executive authority with the help of a new government responsible to him, without specifying a date for this, and he will assume the legislative authority through the issuance of decrees.

The Tunisian president has taken exceptional measures to suspend the work of the constitution (Al-Jazeera)

crises and needs

And the American spokesman returned to say, "We share the Tunisian people's goal of forming a democratic government that responds to the country's needs while it is facing economic and health crises."

Saeed will personally supervise the preparation of draft amendments related to political reforms, including the constitution, the system of government and the electoral law, after being assigned to a special committee.

However, the president did not clarify whether he would envisage a participatory path in this with the parties and organizations.

Most of the parties and the Labor Union (the largest trade union organization in the country) opposed the president's move to abolish most of the constitution, and described his decisions as illegal.

Saeed - who used Article 80 of the constitution itself to announce the exceptional measures - said that he took these steps to save the state, confront corruption and fulfill the will of the people.


responses and rejections

In the reactions related to the presidential procedures, 18 Tunisian and international human rights associations and organizations considered Said's decisions to represent the first steps towards authoritarianism in the country.

It also considered a turning point that poses threats to the human rights and democratic aspirations of the Tunisian people.

These organizations affirmed their adherence to democratic principles, expressing their refusal to seize power in the absence of guarantees.

She stressed support for any process aimed at overcoming the current political and constitutional crisis, provided that the rule of law is respected and the aspirations of the Tunisian people are democratically expressed.

For his part, Sami Al-Jerbi, a member of the Interim Commission to Monitor the Constitutionalization of Bills, said that the president's decision to cancel the commission was issued by a person who lacks capacity, legitimacy and legitimacy, as he put it.

Al-Jerbi accused the president of not complying with the commission's decisions, which prompted him to cancel them.

He added that the doors of the commission will not be closed unless the constitutional court is established, as the people wanted.


Resignations and justifications

In a context related to political developments, the head of the Ennahda Movement’s Political Crisis Management Committee, Mohamed Al-Qumani, announced his resignation, in protest against what he called the fundamental change in the country’s political life.

On August 12, last year, Ennahda announced the formation of a temporary committee to manage the political crisis in the country, headed by Qawmani, a member of the movement's executive office.

Al-Qumani said he appreciates that the national and partisan contexts "effectively end the commission's mission."

He added, "The committee is temporary and has an exclusive mandate in the file, and it is the only official body that binds the movement, and it is not obligated by any positions, initiatives or other relevant statements, whatever they may be."

More than a hundred members of "Ennahda" had submitted their resignations from the movement, due to what they considered a failure in the battle for internal reform of the party emanating from the movement.

"The wrong political choices of the leadership of the Ennahda movement led to its isolation and its failure to actively engage in any common front to resist the imminent tyrannical danger posed by the September 22 (President Said) resolutions," the resignation statement said.

In a related context, Ennahda Shura Council spokeswoman Sana Al-Marsani said, in connection with Al-Jazeera, that the council rejected the new formation of the executive office proposed by the movement's head, Rashid Ghannouchi.

Al-Marsani added that the Shura Council postponed reconsidering the case until next week.

Since last July 25, Tunisia has been experiencing a severe political crisis, as the president decided at the time to freeze the powers of Parliament, lift the immunity of deputies, and dismiss Prime Minister Hisham Al-Mashishi, provided that he assumes the executive authority with the help of a government whose president is appointed, and then issued orders to dismiss officials and appoint others. .

Demonstrations and movements

It is expected that the capital, Tunis, will witness this Sunday afternoon demonstrations rejecting the "coup" and "dictatorship" and the exceptional measures that lead towards what they described as tyranny by power.

Yesterday, dozens of citizens demonstrated in the south of the country to protest against what they described as the coup against the constitution carried out by the president, while a pro-Saied demonstration took place in the capital.

The demonstrators in the Resistance Square in the center of the city of Sfax (south of the country) demanded the return of the constitution and democratic institutions, and they rejected all the exceptional measures taken by the President of the Republic on July 25.

The security forces dispersed the demonstrators and prevented them from clashing with a number of the president's supporters who tried to join them and raised slogans against them.

In the capital, dozens of Said supporters on Saturday morning organized a sit-down in front of the Municipal Theater, on Habib Bourguiba Street, to express their support for the president's decisions, and called for the dissolution of Parliament, which the President of the Republic has suspended since last July.