Tunisia: MPs refusing the dissolution of Parliament threatened with legal proceedings
Tunisian deputies and their supporters in front of the premises of the anti-terrorist brigade in Tunis on April 1, 2022. © Amira Souilhem/RFI
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After the dissolution of Parliament by the Tunisian president on Wednesday, the turmoil around this affair continues.
The deputies deemed rebellious by the Head of State are threatened with legal proceedings.
They are accused of undermining state security.
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With our correspondent in Tunis,
Amira Souilhem
It is a place where Saïda Ounissi, Tunisian deputy would never have believed to be.
“
We are in Bouchoucha, opposite the headquarters of the anti-terrorist brigade
,” she explains.
Elected from the Islamist Ennahdha party, she is one of the elected officials who attended last Wednesday's online parliamentary session.
While he had frozen parliament in July,
Kaïs Saïed, the Tunisian president
did not appreciate this meeting and immediately announced that the rebellious deputies would be prosecuted.
“
These are the mechanisms of any dictatorial regime.
When we do not want to tolerate the presence of the other, we accuse him of being a terrorist.
Personally, I am still particularly honored today to be one of the people who is targeted by a political figure who has an authoritarian project, so if he considers that I am one of his adversaries, well that's very well, it's all to my credit
,” says Saïda Ounissi.
To support the 121 rebellious deputies
, lawyers and political activists made the trip.
Like Jawhar Ben Mbarek, representative of the movement called "Tunisians against the coup".
“
These are political trials.
We urged Parliament to hold firm in the face of this judicial harassment which has now become repetitive on the part of Kaïs Saïed.
The harassment of deputies, political opponents, bloggers…
”, he lists.
More than half of the deputies are therefore under judicial investigation as Tunisia prepares to organize legislative elections next December.
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