Tunisia -
The scenario of thwarting Tunisian President Kais Saied's path to monopoly in power remains on the table, according to some opposition leaders who participated - today, Sunday - in a massive march in the center of the capital, Tunis, to demand a return to democracy, but politicians supporting the president believe that the president's path cannot be overthrown with marches that were repeated previously and then It failed, they said.
Today's demonstration coincided with the celebration of Martyrs' Day, during which the participants raised slogans glorifying the Speaker of Parliament and the leader of the Islamic Renaissance Movement Rashid Ghannouchi, who represents the most prominent political opponent of the Tunisian President, while the voices of the demonstrators rose to overthrow what they considered a coup against the constitution and legitimacy by Qais Saeed.
In the midst of this new round of protests against the path of Kais Saied, the leader of the Ennahda movement, Abdel Latif al-Makki, believes that the popular marches will undoubtedly change the path that the president is walking, saying, “These protests dropped the president’s saying that the people are all with him, and proved that the majority of the street stands against his project and that his supporters are counting on the fingers of the hand.”
The current opposition to President Said's political path is increasingly spreading in the Tunisian street (Al-Jazeera)
He told Al Jazeera Net that the vigil proved that a large part of Tunisian public opinion continues to resist what he considers a "coup" and an attempt to consolidate an authoritarian regime by Qais Saeed, and believes that the president's project "will end with its overthrow by the protesters, who were determined to save the experience." democracy and not trample it.
Regarding the upcoming scenarios for escalation if the situation remains as it is, Al-Makki says that the opposition is betting on the continuation of the protests in the street to pressure the president in all directions, considering that the latter will pay the price for leading the country into a dangerous blockage, as a result of refusing dialogue, mismanaging public affairs and exacerbating the situation. .
Al-Makki believes that President Kais Saied has become isolated as a result of his escape to the front, in an effort to consolidate the project of exclusivity in government, and the leader of the Ennahda movement revealed a new political initiative put forward by veteran politician Mohamed Najib Chebbi, to unite the opposition around a vision of how to get out of this political impasse in an institutional and participatory manner. To block the way in front of the domination of the Tunisian President.
political initiative
Najib al-Shabbi is one of the faces opposed to the July 25, 2021 process, in which President Kais Saied took a number of exceptional measures, including freezing parliament - before it was completely dissolved later - and dismissing the government, lifting the immunity of parliamentarians, canceling the work of large parts of the constitution, and ruling the country by decrees. The presidency delegates to him very broad powers.
According to Al-Makki, this new political initiative will increase the opposition's mobilization and consolidate its ranks in a united front against the president, explaining that it proposes many political reforms such as the revision of the constitution and the electoral law and the organization of premature elections, as well as a conditional return to Parliament to enact some important laws.
This initiative to unite the opposition on one front will have an inevitable impact on the Tunisian scene, as the former Dean of Lawyers Abdel Razzaq Al-Kilani tells Al Jazeera Net, as he believes that the agreement of the political spectrum with its various orientations on a unified plan will strengthen the confrontation of the president's aspiring project for exclusivity of government, far from meeting any demands social popularity.
Although he does not believe that the protest rallies are capable of changing the course of President Qais Saied by virtue of his insistence on imposing a fait accompli to establish a regime that perpetuates his individual rule, he does not rule out the people’s uprising against “all attempts to return to dictatorship and starvation”;
He says that "the will of the people will determine the next path in the near future."
The two sides of the political crisis in Tunisia are arguing that they are siding with the constitution and are working to preserve it (Al-Jazeera)
Failed rallies
On the other hand, the Secretary-General of the People's Movement, Zuhair Maghzawi, says that a protest march "ranging between two or three thousand participants cannot change or overthrow the president's political path," noting that since the date of last July 25, many marches that are behind the movement have taken place. Renaissance, but all failed to mobilize.
He adds to Al Jazeera Net, "I think that today's march is about to send messages abroad to bully the foreigner more than the inside," ruling out that the general public would be involved in these marches because of their rejection of the system that was ruling before July 25, 2021 within fraudulent political alliances led by the Ennahda movement according to its self-interests. and private."
For him, the Ennahda movement did not leave any regrettable achievements, but rather entrenched in the people the conviction that its only concern is controlling the state apparatus and obtaining compensation, considering that everything it is currently doing to restore the activity of the dissolved parliament or move the street is a failed attempt that will not receive any popular support or No effect, according to him.
Although his party was one of the largest parties supporting the exceptional measures taken by President Qais Saeed on July 25, 2021, he assures Al Jazeera Net that he has many reservations on this path due to the president's failure to give any tangible priority to improving social conditions or opening Dialogue and participatory.