Tunisia

- Tunisian President Kais Saied continues to lay the foundations for his political project towards establishing what he called the "new republic", not paying attention - according to observers - to the positions of the parties, even those supporting him, while his opponents began to mobilize, escalate and call for the unification of the opposition front.

Observers believe that the president's exclusion of parties from the advisory body entrusted with formulating the foundations of a new constitution for the country and others related to the national dialogue was the drop that spilled the cup, and accelerated the escalation of positions against him, even from the forces supporting him that condemned his individual orientation.

The statements of political parties - of different orientations - agreed on the illegality and unconstitutionality of the steps taken by the Tunisian president after choosing - according to them - to ignore all calls for dialogue and to go towards perpetuating an authoritarian approach that destroys the foundations of the democratic state.

It appealed to the Ennahda Movement, the National Salvation Front, the Labor Party, the Democratic Current, and the Republican Party;

All the living forces that are clinging to the democratic path, unite their efforts and confront the president's project, and bring down what they described as the path of a coup against the constitution.

Advanced Consultation

In this regard, the Secretary-General of the Democratic Current, Ghazi al-Shawashi, confirmed the existence of advanced consultations with parties and democratic forces with the aim of uniting the opposition on one front to bring down the president's project.

He added - in his speech to Al-Jazeera Net - that "the time has come to unite the democratic spectrum and search for a formula for joint action within the framework of an expanded opposition front against the president's actions, a work that requires a lot of self-denial, wisdom, setting priorities and leaving partisan differences aside."

He stressed - in his speech - that "it is time for escalation", and that this will take place within a legal, peaceful and democratic framework to stop what he described as tampering with the pillars of the state and hold the president and all those who supported him in bad faith accountable.

Al-Shawashi said that this week will be decisive and fateful, awaiting the outcome of the consultations of the Executive Office of the Labor Union, which will hold its meeting today to issue a final position on the president’s recent steps and whether or not to accept its involvement in the course of the Third Republic’s constitution.

Al-Shawashi called on all democratic and civil forces, led by national organizations, to boycott what he described as a farce, and not to be a false witness to a return to a new dictatorship led by President Saeed.

The position of the labor union

Today, attention is directed to the Tunisian General Labor Union, which has political and trade union weight, to determine its position on participating in the path called for by the Tunisian president.

Saeed had met yesterday, Sunday, the Secretary-General of the operational organization, without revealing any information about this meeting.

The organization's assistant secretary-general, Anwar Kaddour, confirmed - in a local media statement today - that the declared position of the union about refusing to participate in the dialogue in its current form is a firm and documented position.

A few days ago, the official spokesman of the Union, Sami Al-Tahri, made it clear that the organization still adhered to the same conditions that it had previously put forward regarding the national dialogue, stressing the need for the dialogue to be open to ensure the participation of national parties and organizations, and not based on "prerequisite and conditional" results.

Expanding the Salvation Front

Adviser to the President of the Renaissance Movement and a member of the Salvation Front, Riyad Al-Shuaibi, confirmed to Al Jazeera Net that there are vigorous consultations within the Front - which includes parties and civil forces - towards expanding the base of participation in it.

"We are open to all political and national forces, regardless of our political differences or our evaluation of each other's performance. Our choice now is a peaceful, civil, democratic struggle and political coordination between the various parties to defeat the coup."

Al-Shuaibi stressed the existence of concerted and motivating factors in shaping the political scene in the country and the return of democracy, related to the president's unilateralism, which made him almost isolated politically, as well as the expansion of the opposition's circle rejecting his project.

He stressed that the coming days will witness an escalation in the level of struggle against the president's project through field moves or political coordination with the rest of the parties and forces that believe in the values ​​of democracy.

Parties supporting the president's project had called on him to expand the base of his consultations and to involve parties and civil forces supporting the July 25 measures, such as the Popular Current and the People's Movement.