Tunisia: President Saïed announces a national dialogue only with civil society

Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed, in Carthage on December 8, 2021. AP - Slim Abid

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The Tunisian president announced it on Sunday May 1, 2022 during a televised address on the eve of Eid.

This national dialogue has been expected for months, but it will take place in small groups.

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All Tunisian political parties are excluded from this national dialogue.

They are considered by the Tunisian president as " 

 ".

Only four civil society organizations are invited: the UGTT trade union centre, the employers' organization Utica, the Tunisian League for Human Rights, and the National Bar Association.

for its contribution to democratic transition during the Arab Spring.

This allows Kaïs Saïed to respond to the international community's insistent demand for national dialogue, as Tunisia is in talks with the International Monetary Fund to obtain a new loan.

While excluding political parties, and in particular

, the pivot of all government coalitions for ten years.

This call for a national dialogue with a very limited scope on the part of the Tunisian president comes at a time when he has dissolved Parliament, overhauled the Superior Council of the Judiciary and the High Electoral Authority, and is carrying out a constitutional reform which will be submitted referendum in July, pending legislative elections promised for December 17.

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