Today, Wednesday, the Tunisian parliament started a plenary session remotely to vote to cancel the exceptional measures approved by President Kais Saied last summer, and his opponents considered them a coup against the constitution.
The session was launched online, despite Saeed's threat to resort to force to prevent the suspended parliament from convening under the extraordinary measures announced by the president on 25 July last.
Tariq Al-Fiti, Deputy Speaker of the Assembly of the People's Representatives, said that the deputies will vote on a bill related to ending the work of the exceptional measures after discussing it.
He added that they will also vote to cancel all presidential orders and decrees issued starting from 25 July 2025, including the order to suspend the powers of the Assembly of People's Representatives, noting that a vote will also be taken to cancel a presidential decree to create the Interim Supreme Judicial Council.
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The Deputy Speaker of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People stated that the law that will be voted upon must be published in the Official Gazette and on the website of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People on the Internet, provided that it enters into force as of the vote on it, and is implemented as a law of the Tunisian state.
And Reuters news agency quoted members of parliament that they expect the participation of half of the 217 deputies.
The Constitutional Free Party and the People's Movement announced their refusal to participate in the plenary session.
At the beginning of the session, the head of the Ennahda movement’s bloc in the Tunisian parliament, Imad Khamiri, called for early elections after ending the exceptional measures, and called for a comprehensive national dialogue aimed at resolving the crisis and stopping the collapse.
The Speaker of the Tunisian Parliament, Rached Ghannouchi, had called for two plenary sessions of Parliament, one of which would be devoted to a vote to cancel the exceptional measures that President Kais Saied had initiated, which include the dissolution of the government and the suspension of Parliament.
Saeed warned against attempts to hold sessions of the suspended parliament, and said that state forces and institutions "will confront those who want to tamper with the state and push Tunisians to fight."