Tunisian President Kais Saied confirmed that parliament is still frozen, and that any decision he takes will be "outside of history and geography," as he put it, after the Speaker of the House of Representatives called the parliament's office to convene tomorrow morning, Monday.

Saeed said during his meeting with Prime Minister Naglaa Boden at the Carthage Palace - yesterday, Saturday - that "whoever wants to meet outside space, there is a spacecraft in the sky, let him meet in this spacecraft if they want, but the council is frozen."

He added, "Any decision that will be taken is outside space, outside history and outside geography, and whoever dreams of going back is delusional, most important and most important, and his pipe dreams will not be realized."

Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi called the parliament's office to convene tomorrow morning, according to Maher Madhyoub, assistant speaker of parliament in charge of information and communication.

Madhyob explained - in a post on his Facebook page - that the office will consider the council's agenda for the coming period, without clarifying whether the meeting will take place remotely or at the parliament headquarters, which has been closed by a presidential order since the exceptional measures were announced last July 25.

In addition to the parliament speaker and his two deputies, the parliament's office includes 10 members representing the various parliamentary blocs, and it takes its decisions by the majority of those present.

Last December, the Tunisian president announced the extension of the suspension of Parliament until new legislative elections are held at the end of the current year (December 2022), as part of a roadmap to end the exceptional measures, which sparked a division among those who considered it a step aimed at correcting the course of the situation. The democratic experience in Tunisia, and among those who described it as a coup against the constitution and a departure from legitimacy.

Wages and support

On the other hand, the Secretary-General of the Tunisian Labor Union, Noureddine Taboubi, reiterated the union's rejection of any government reforms based on freezing wages for a period of 5 years, as well as its opposition to stopping subsidies for public institutions.

This came during a conference of the federation in the city of Monastir yesterday, Saturday, where Taboubi said that the federation does not oppose the conclusion of an agreement between the government and the International Monetary Fund, but calls for learning a lesson from previous mistakes.

Tunisia is seeking a $4 billion rescue package from the IMF, while the fund requires the government to achieve consensus and political stability to negotiate the matter.

Last Monday, Morgan Stanley warned that Tunisia is heading towards default on some of its debts, if the current deterioration in its public finances continues.

This follows a similar warning on Friday from credit rating agency Fitch, which downgraded Tunisia's sovereign debt to CCC from B-.