Amid a strike by judges and confrontations between the police and protesters in the capital, Tunis, the advisory body announced that it would not involve the "spoilers" in the national dialogue sessions, while the National Salvation Front seeks to appoint a rescue government.

Yesterday, 5 parties called for the stand: the Republican Party, the Democratic Current, the Democratic Bloc for Labor and Freedoms, Workers and the Qutb, as part of a campaign they launched to drop the referendum on a new constitution, for which President Qais Saeed formed a committee to write a draft, and called for a referendum on it in July. next July.

The police intercepted the protesters and prevented them from reaching the headquarters of the Independent High Authority for Elections, which Saed did not choose the way its members were chosen and appointed its head himself, a measure they consider aimed at extending his control over the institution.

During the sit-in, the protesters raised slogans "the gang is the one who does not turn back on the issue", "there is no fear, no terror, the authority belongs to the people", and "the freedoms of the police state are gone (it's over)."

The Secretary-General of the Workers' Party, Hamma Hammami, said, in a speech during the vigil, that we are protesting before the president's body as a fraud body, because we consider that its only goal is to falsify the referendum and the elections that follow.

Hammami stressed that Said's path aims to destroy all institutions and freedoms and establish himself as a new tyrant of Tunisia.

For its part, the Citizens Against the Coup Initiative said that what it called the "coup" popular mobilization, with the complicity of the security, attacked a popular meeting of the National Salvation Front opposing the president.

She added that disrupting the political meeting of the National Salvation Front "is a thuggish and chaotic behavior, and that the practice of chaotic violence is clear evidence of the predicament experienced by the de-facto authority."


rescue government

For his part, the head of the National Salvation Front in Tunisia, Ahmed Najib Chebbi, said that the front will hold a national conference to appoint a rescue government.

During a general meeting held by the front in the Tunisian city of Tozeur, Chebbi described the establishment of the Salvation Government to be formed as an urgent task that cannot wait, to save Tunisia from going into the abyss, as he put it.

Tunisia has been experiencing a severe political crisis since July 25, when Said imposed at that time exceptional measures, including freezing the powers of Parliament, issuing legislation by decree, dismissing the government and appointing others.

Several political and civil forces in Tunisia reject these measures, and consider them a "coup against the constitution", while other forces support them and see them as a "correction of the course of the 2011 revolution," which overthrew then-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.


Judiciary strike

In this context, the Tunisian Judges Association decided to strike in all judicial institutions, starting next Monday, for a period of one week, subject to renewal.

During a meeting held by the Association's emergency National Council, most of the attendees voted to approve the principle of engaging in a strike starting next Monday in all judicial facilities for a week, subject to renewal.

The association also decided, according to the official news agency, to engage in open sit-ins in all the headquarters of the judicial union structures, and not to run for judicial positions to compensate the dismissed, as well as not to run for positions in the subsidiary bodies of the Electoral Commission.

All judicial union structures, including a syndicate, an association, young judges, and administrative judges, participated in the decision to strike, noting that the decision to strike excluded burial permissions and severe terrorism cases.

The assembly had held an emergency meeting to discuss President Qais Saeed's decision to dismiss 57 judges and determine the steps to respond to it.

The head of the association, Anas Al-Hammadi, said that whoever thinks that he is able to monopolize the executive and judicial authority and insult the judges is most important, and that they will not leave the executive authority to play on internal divisions.

For its part, the National Authority for the Defense of Liberties and Democracy in Tunisia called on lawyers and court employees to make the judges' strike a success.

She supports the judges in their pivotal battle for independence.


exclusion of "spoilers"

On the other hand, the head of the Consultative Commission for a New Republic in Tunisia, Sadiq Belaid, said that he would not involve those who "corrupted the country" in the national dialogue, whose first session was launched on Saturday morning.

He added, in statements to a number of local and international media - after the end of the first national dialogue sessions in the guesthouse in the capital, Tunis - that 42 personalities attended the opening session of the dialogue, which was supervised by the commission, pointing out that many of them were subjected to pressure in order to discourage them from attending by a party of


He called them claiming knowledge in jurisprudence and politics.

He pointed out that it was decided to involve those who are characterized by good hand hygiene and those who seek to serve Tunisia's interest (without naming anyone).

On Saturday morning, the first session of the national dialogue called by Saied took place in Tunisia, in preparation for organizing a referendum on a new constitution on July 25, with the aim of ending the country's political crisis.

Representatives from the Tunisian Union of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts, the National Union of Women, the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights (non-governmental), and a number of Tunisian personalities participated in the first dialogue session.

While a number of national and political parties announced their boycott of these meetings, including the Tunisian General Labor Union, Afaq Tounes parties, Al-Massar and the United National Democratic Party.

In addition to the political crisis, Tunisia is experiencing serious economic difficulties, most notably the accelerating inflation and high unemployment.

The heavily indebted country is trying to obtain a new loan from the International Monetary Fund worth at least $4 billion.