The Tunisian General Labor Union announced the start of consultations with civil society organizations and forces for what it called saving the country, while Tunisian President Kais Saied reiterated that the electoral process would continue, despite the reluctance of the majority of voters to participate.
The Secretary-General of the Tunisian General Labor Union, Noureddine Taboubi, confirmed that the union had started consultations with the Deanship of Lawyers and the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights, in order to formulate a vision of an initiative with civil society organizations and forces, to save the country from the current situation.
Al-Taboubi indicated - in a statement published by Al-Shaab News - that the initiative is still in the stage of ideas.
Concerning the first round of the legislative elections, Taboubi said that if there was a political mind and sophistication among decision makers, the Tunisian president would have picked up the people's message by attributing abstention, and hastened to launch a national dialogue in order to draw alternatives to what he called the failed system.
Al-Taboubi called - last Thursday - to stop the current electoral process, and to initiate measures to get the country out of its crises.
And the "Citizens Against the Coup" movement called - yesterday - in a statement for a national dialogue, to agree on a consensus road map in order to overthrow what it describes as a coup, in the wake of the legislative elections that received low participation.
The movement stated that it does not see the current leadership of the Tunisian Labor Union as a sponsor of dialogue, "because it was a party to the conflict," according to the statement.
President's insistence
On the other hand, Tunisian President Kais Saied confirmed that the electoral process will continue and that the people will have their say in the elections.
Said said in a press statement - during a visit to the state of Jendouba in the north of the country - that it is possible, according to the text of the constitution, to withdraw the agency from whom he described as infiltrators in the elections.
And the legislative elections had ended - earlier this month - with the weakest participation after the revolution. Of the total number of about 9 million and 100 thousand voters, only about 11% participated - according to the electoral commission's data.
Opponents commented on this percentage as a sign of failure in the course of President Kais Saied, who prepared for these elections, starting with drafting a new constitution, and then amending the election law.
However, the president replied to his opponents that it is not possible to judge the participation rate from the first round, on the basis that 95 constituencies will be re-elected.
No candidate won a majority.