The Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fishing joined the list of opponents of the national dialogue proposed by President Kais Saied, and the Ennahda movement renewed its condemnation of the president's policies and what it described as targeting the revolution and its gains.

A statement by the Union (Farmers Union) - whose brigade includes about 480,000 farmers of the country - said that it "is not interested in dialogue in its current form and form," stressing that "participation in it is a matter decided and decided by the union's institutions and structures."

The union added, "Although our organization has not yet received an official invitation to participate in this dialogue, it remains open to every initiative that would bring together all Tunisians."

Last Friday, the Tunisian president announced the creation of a committee to prepare for a draft revision of the constitution for a "new republic" through a "national dialogue" that excluded political parties.

The Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fishing confirmed that it had nothing to do with the name of the Tunisian General Union of Agriculture and Fishing, which was mentioned in Decree 30 (related to the national dialogue).

It is noteworthy that a presidential order regarding controlling the composition of the Advisory Committee for Economic and Social Affairs and the Legal Advisory Committee, issued on Wednesday, named Noureddine Ben Ayyad as the head of the Agriculture Union, instead of the head of the Union, Abdel Majid Al-Zar, whom Saeed did not invite to the national dialogue.

The Tunisian General Labor Union (the largest trade union in the country) announced last Monday its refusal to participate in a "formal and ready-to-result" dialogue on the political reforms proposed by the president, considering that this dialogue is unable to get the country out of its crisis.


Al-Nahda condemns

For its part, the Ennahda movement condemned what it called the continued targeting of the revolution and its gains, noting the "failure" of the dialogue initiatives called for by President Kais Saied.

In a statement signed by the movement's president, Rached Ghannouchi, the movement said, "We condemn the insistence of the coup authority to continue targeting the revolution and its gains, to further dismantle constitutional institutions and a complete coup against the legitimacy and gains of the democratic country."

Ennahda also refused to "preach an authoritarian rule based on unilateralism, imposing unilateral options, and closing the door to serious and responsible dialogue with the various parties."

She pointed to the failure of the projected, artificial, and exclusionary dialogue initiatives, in reference to the rejection of the country's political and union forces' invitation to dialogue launched by Saeed.

The movement valued these positions and considered them among the responsible positions that rejected the formal participation in a dialogue whose results are known in advance, according to it.

Alongside Ennahda, major political parties, including the Democratic Current and the Free Constitutional Party, pledged to stand up to Saied's decision to exclude it from key political reforms, including the drafting of a new constitution, accusing him of seeking to entrench authoritarian rule.

Opponents accuse the president of carrying out a coup that undermined the democratic gains of the 2011 revolution that sparked the Arab Spring, but he says his moves were legal and necessary to save Tunisia from a long-running political crisis.