Tunisian President Kais Saied threatened those whom he described as "wanting to thwart the referendum" on the draft constitution, explaining that "there is no room for tolerance because it concerns the fate of a state and people," while the Salvation Front warned of what it described as a wave of political liquidations that the authorities may present.

The Tunisian President received, today, Monday at Carthage Palace, the head of the Independent High Authority for Elections, Farouk Bouaskar, and stressed "the necessity of impartiality of all parties and attention to attempts to penetrate the registration process."

Saeed reiterated - according to the Tunisian presidency's statement published on its official Facebook page - the "necessity of intensive work to ensure that the explanatory campaign takes place in the best conditions and to ensure the neutrality of all public facilities so that the people crack their opinion freely on the draft constitution that will establish a new republic."

He also explained that "the possibility of changing the polling stations was tampered with," and stressed that "it is necessary to take all measures so that this does not happen again, and to take all measures so that each party assumes its full responsibilities," according to the text of the statement.

In the same context, the Tunisian President received Prime Minister Najla Bouden, and the meeting touched on "the progress of a number of public facilities and the ongoing preparations for the date of the referendum on 25 July."

Security warnings

The National Salvation Front, the opposition, warned today, Monday, of what it described as a wave of political liquidations that the authorities may advance, as the head of the Salvation Front, Ahmed Najib al-Shabi, said that the country is witnessing media campaigns that precede the referendum on the new draft constitution and aim to create the atmosphere for the security pursuit of political leaders.

Chebbi added that media campaigns against many politicians are being pursued, prompted by what he called a hostile rhetoric by President Kais Saied.

He also considered that there is an atmosphere of threat to freedoms in the country, and that many are classified as accused until their innocence is proven, calling what he described as the forces of freedom and democracy in Tunisia to move and reject the involvement of state agencies in political conflicts.

For his part, the Dean of Tunisian Lawyers and a member of the Constitution Drafting Committee, Ibrahim Bouderbala, considered that the amendments approved by the Tunisian President to the draft constitution did not affect its essence, but rather that some formal errors were fixed and some ambiguous issues were clarified, he said.

Bouderbala called on Tunisians in a radio statement to vote "yes" on the draft constitution, stressing that Tunisia needs political stability.