Today, Thursday, the Tunisian Ennahda movement described the referendum on the new draft constitution as illegitimate and called for a boycott of it. It also called on 28 Tunisian organizations to withdraw the project, while the judges accused the authority of closing the door to dialogue with them.

In a press conference in the Tunisian capital, the movement's spokesman, Imad Khamiri, said that the new draft constitution presented by President Kais Saied in preparation for a referendum on it on July 25, is "an unconstitutional, illegal, illegal document issued by a coup", calling for a boycott of the referendum.

Al-Khamiri added that this project is a reversal because it legislates the construction of an authoritarian, authoritarian regime and the rule of the individual.

He also said that there is no state of institutions in the new constitution, considering that the project destroys the republican rule based on the separation of powers.

A spokesman for the Ennahda movement accused what he described as the coup authority of inability to manage the country's situation, pointing out that Tunisia is witnessing unprecedented rates of inflation.

Tunisian President Kais Saied issued at the end of last month a draft of the new constitution that will be put to a referendum.

Opposition parties, some of them involved in the Salvation Front, condemned the new draft constitution and called for a boycott of the referendum on it, while President Said called on Tunisians to vote yes.

Distortion of the Renaissance

On another subject, Khamiri denounced the Tunisian authorities' attempts to target the Ennahda movement with distortion in response to what he described as extirpatory parties.

And he talked about an attempt to involve the head of the Ennahda movement, Rached Ghannouchi, in fabricated issues that he has nothing to do with.

He was referring to a judicial decision to investigate Ghannouchi and dozens of others, accusing them of money laundering through the Namaa Charitable Association.

Yesterday, Ennahda denounced the accusations leveled at its president, describing them as fabricated.

In this context, Ennahda said it would appeal rulings to drop some of its winning parliamentary lists in the 2019 elections.

The branch of the Court of Accounts in Gafsa Governorate (southwest of Tunisia) dropped the lists of the Ennahda and Qalb Tounes parties in the 2019 legislative elections in a number of electoral districts in the center and southwest, with members of the two parties being denied participation in the elections for 5 years.


Withdrawal of the draft constitution

Meanwhile, 28 human rights organizations expressed their rejection of the draft constitution that President Kais Saied put to a referendum on July 25 and called for its withdrawal.

In a joint statement, which Al Jazeera obtained a copy of, the organizations - including the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights, the Tunisian Journalists Syndicate, and the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights - said that they will mobilize to take all legitimate moves to achieve constitutional reforms that respect the dignity of Tunisian women and men and respond to their aspirations for freedom, equality and justice. Social.

The undersigned organizations stressed that the draft constitution does not constitute a qualitative leap that transcends the loopholes of the 2014 constitution. Rather, it reverted to denying the civil nature of the state and to abolishing reliance on the human rights system as a foundational reference, on the contrary, to perpetuate the religious and political overlap, as they put it.

The organizations considered that the draft constitution abolishes the principle of sovereignty and popular control over power in exchange for consecrating the status of power in the hands of the individual ruling president and exempting him from political or legal accountability in light of the absolute immunity he enjoys in the new draft constitution.

In the same context, a number of former deans of lawyers in Tunisia denounced the lack of emphasis in the new draft constitution on the role of the lawyer as a partner in the administration of justice, as was the case in the 2014 constitution, which stressed in one of its chapters that the lawyer is a partner in the administration of justice and that the lawyer enjoys guarantees that guarantee its independence.


Judges accuse authority

On the other hand, the head of the Association of Tunisian Judges, Anas Al Hammadi, accused today, Thursday, the Tunisian authority, of closing the doors of dialogue with the judges.

Al-Hammadi said that the number of judges on hunger strike to protest the recent pardon of 57 of them by a decision of President Qais Saeed will increase in light of these conditions.

The head of the Tunisian Judges Association added that they informed the honorary president of the International Federation of Judges, who is visiting Tunisia, of attempts to "messenger" and distort judges.

Tunisian judges went on strike for about a month in protest of the dismissal of dozens of their colleagues, and then announced a few days ago the suspension of the strike, waving to resume it if their demands were not met.