Today, Monday, Tunisian President Kais Saied is scheduled to receive the draft of the new constitution that he intends to submit for review next July, at a time when the opposition continues to reject this step and considers it an attempt by the president to concentrate powers in his hands.

Earlier, the head of the Constitution Committee, Sadiq Belaid, said he would hand over the new draft of the "democratic constitution" to the president on Monday.

Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that attention is turning to the Carthage Palace today, where he is awaiting the arrival of Belaid to present the draft constitution to the president.

She explained that it is expected that there will be amendments to the initial version, as Qais Saeed may give notes and request amendments to them.

President Saied plans to submit the new constitution to a public referendum on July 25.

Al-Jazeera correspondent, Shaima Jo Ee, said that it is expected that there will be demonstrations in refusal to organize the referendum and change the constitution.

Yesterday, Sunday, the head of the opposition National Salvation Front in Tunisia, Ahmed Najib Chebbi, said - during a protest demonstration organized on Habib Bourguiba Street (center of the Tunisian capital) - that the political crisis in the country is worsening;

Which puts us in front of two options: "either the comprehensive national dialogue or ruin."

In a speech he delivered in front of the front's supporters participating in the demonstration, Chebbi called the Tunisian General Labor Union for a comprehensive national dialogue, and called on its leaders to stop attacking the political forces, which he described as sincere.

He stressed that the Front will not remain neutral in the struggle for the independence of civil society organizations, and that it extends its hand to all organizations, accusing the government of failing to fulfill its promises to suppliers, which led to the interruption of a number of basic materials in the country.

He added that "there are no partial or sectoral solutions in light of the severe financial crisis the country is going through, which requires a comprehensive national dialogue."

For her part, Samira Chaouachi - the first deputy speaker of the dissolved Tunisian parliament and a leader in the Salvation Front - said that President Saeed is targeting the constitution because it is the constitution of the independence of the judiciary.


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In a speech during the demonstration, Al-Shawashi stressed the party's adherence to the 2014 constitution, describing it as the "constitution of national unity."

The National Salvation Front - since its founding last April - has been engaged in anti-President Said movements, and calls for the formation of a national salvation government to confront what it describes as a "coup".

The front includes political entities and figures opposed to the July 25 track, such as the Ennahda Movement, the Dignity Coalition, Qalb Tounes, Tunisia Al-Irada, and Citizens Against the Coup.

The participants in yesterday's demonstration raised slogans against what they describe as President Said's "coup" against the elected institutions, and renewed their rejection of the referendum scheduled for next July 25 and their denunciation of military trials for civilians.

This demonstration comes - according to a statement by the Salvation Front - in defense of democratic gains, and a rejection of what it called "the play of dialogue and the referendum", and in support of the independence of the judiciary.

In the city of Nabeul (in the east of the country), the Coordination of the parties rejecting the referendum called during a protest vigil to drop the referendum next month.

The participants in the vigil denounced what they called "individual choices" of President Saeed, and raised slogans rejecting the referendum and denouncing the deterioration of the social situation in the country.

The coordination - which includes 5 parties: the Republican Party, the Democratic Bloc, the Democratic Current, the Labor Party, and the Pole Party - also confirmed that it will organize a number of moves in other Tunisian cities, to highlight the danger of the authoritarian individual approach that Qais Saeed took, as she put it.