The Ennahda movement expressed its rejection of attempts to abolish the 2014 constitution, while the General Labor Union refused to keep the country without a Legislative Council, amid Western calls to set a time limit for the return of Parliament.
In a statement, Ennahda warned against compromising the constitutional structure of power, and bringing the government into an open legal crisis with severe consequences.
The movement said it had fears of harnessing state institutions to impose personal and partisan agendas, and expressed its support for the Supreme Judicial Council, calling on the head of state to respect the independence of the judiciary and its irrevocable rulings.
The movement also warned of what it called the dangers of the rhetoric of division and exclusion and incitement to target political opponents.
President Kais Saied described the 2014 constitution as lacking legitimacy, and it could not be implemented in the coming years.
Following Said's comments, a joint statement by the heads of missions - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union delegation - called for the return of an elected legislative institution in Tunisia, and for the inclusion of all parties and different voices in constitutional, electoral and economic reforms.
For its part, the Supreme Judicial Council (an independent constitutional body) last Tuesday refused to prejudice the constitutional structure of the judiciary through (presidential) decrees, after Tunisian President Kais Saied met with officials from judicial councils, including the head of the Supreme Judicial Council, Youssef Bouzakher.
third option
In this context, the Secretary-General of the Tunisian Labor Union, Noureddine Taboubi, confirmed that the union is in the process of preparing a project and a vision for what he described as the third option, which will soon be presented to the union structures and public opinion.
Al-Taboubi stressed that the union is concerned with the stability of the country, which cannot happen without a clear vision.
During his supervision of a symposium on the reform of the higher education system yesterday, Friday in Hammamet (northeast of Tunisia), Tabboubi said that the union does not have any differences with the President of the Republic, Kais Saied, and supports the corrective path, provided that the reform vision is clear, and the effective national forces in the country are involved in Track effective participation.
Tunisia has been experiencing a severe political crisis since last July 25, when President Said began taking exceptional measures, including freezing the powers of Parliament, lifting the immunity of his deputies, abolishing the constitutionality control body, issuing legislation by presidential decrees, chairing the Public Prosecution, dismissing the Prime Minister, and forming new ones. He appointed its chief.
Most of the country's political forces reject these decisions and consider them a "coup against the constitution", while other forces support them and see them as a "correction of the course of the 2011 revolution", which overthrew the late President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.