The "Tounes Movement of Will" party expressed its dissatisfaction with the establishment of what it described as a "coup" as a fait accompli, while a Tunisian court opened an investigation on Friday into the statements of former President Moncef Marzouki, in which he said that he sought to thwart the holding of the Francophone summit in his country at the end of this year.
In a statement, the party called on the Tunisian people to defend the gains of the revolution, expressing its condemnation of the rhetoric of violence and treason used by the head of state, Qais Saeed.
The party added that the growing rhetoric of treason and describing the opponents as traitors is an authoritarian discourse par excellence.
Since last July 25, Tunisia has been suffering from a severe political crisis, as President Kais Saied began a series of exceptional decisions, including freezing the competencies of Parliament, lifting the immunity of its deputies, abolishing the constitutionality monitoring body, issuing legislation by presidential decrees, headed by the Public Prosecution, and dismissing the Prime Minister. .
Most of the political forces - including the "Ennahda" movement - rejected Said's exceptional decisions, and considered them a coup against the constitution, while other forces supported them and saw them as a correction of the course of the 2011 revolution, in light of the political, economic and health crises (the Corona pandemic).
judicial investigation
The official spokesman for the Court of Appeal in the capital, Tunis, Habib Tarkhani, confirmed that an investigation had been opened into Marzouki's statements in France.
Last Tuesday, Marzouki told the French channel France 24 that he was "proud of his efforts with French officials to thwart the holding of the Francophone Summit in Tunisia, given that organizing it in a country undergoing a coup is an endorsement of dictatorship and tyranny," as he put it.
After it was to be held on the island of Djerba (southeast of Tunisia) - during next November - the Permanent Council of the Francophonie recommended on Tuesday postponing the summit until next year, while preserving Tunisia's right to host.
Lawyers had filed a complaint against Marzouki, accusing him of attacking the state's external security and harming its interests.
The complaint stated that Marzouki expressed his pride in being the reason for the postponement of the Francophone summit that was to be held in Tunisia next month.
And on Thursday, President Said said that the diplomatic passport would be withdrawn from anyone who went abroad and begged it to strike Tunisian interests.
Referring to Marzouki's travel on a diplomatic passport to France, and the statement about the Francophone summit.
Saeed called on the Minister of Justice to open a judicial investigation into this issue, because there is no room for conspiracy against the internal and external security of the state.
On the other hand, former Tunisian President Marzouki said that President Kais Saied had no legitimacy after perjuring the constitutional oath, and that the government had no legitimacy because it did not have the approval of the Tunisian Parliament.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Marzouki called on the Tunisian people to take action to end what he described as a "coup."
Marzouki added that President Saeed should resign, as he has plunged Tunisia into a dark tunnel, and has become a threat to its unity, economy and reputation, as he put it.