Today, Friday, Tunisian President Kais Saied toured Habib Bourguiba Street (in the center of Tunis), before protest demonstrations called for the opposition to be organized in the same street tomorrow, Saturday, on the occasion of the anniversary of the revolution.

Saeed said - during his tour - that "there is no place for traitors and agents" in the country, and that whoever accuses the state of police is the one who wants to destroy it, as he put it.

With regard to the planned protests, the Tunisian president repeated his previous statement that January 14 - the date of the fall of the Zine El Abidine Ben Ali regime and his departure from Tunisia - is not the anniversary of the revolution, but rather December 17, as the date for the start of the protests that led to the fall of the regime.

In a statement issued yesterday, Thursday, the Ennahda Movement called for people to take to Habib Bourguiba Street, tomorrow, Saturday, to put an end to what it described as the course of the coup.

The movement said, "The abominable coup seized power, destroyed the economy, ravaged the daily life of the people, and turned it into real suffering."

The Ennahda movement appreciated the initiatives to get out of the political, economic and social crisis in the country, and denounced what it called the attempt to exclude the parties from the dialogue.


On the other hand, Hafeez Hafeez, Assistant Secretary-General of the Tunisian General Labor Union, said that President Kais Saeed drafted an electoral law "according to his size", because it perpetuates tribal and factional tendencies by abolishing parties and lists, he said.

Hafeez also expressed his concern about the postponement of consideration of the Tunisian file with the International Monetary Fund due to the ambiguity of the political scene, and added that rejecting the file would have dire consequences for Tunisia in various fields.

Since July 25, 2021, Tunisia has been living under a series of exceptional measures taken by President Saied, including the dissolution of parliament and the Judicial Council, the issuance of legislation by presidential decrees, the passage of a new constitution, and the holding of early legislative elections last month, in which only 11.2% of the electorate participated.