May 6, 2022

Tunisia: «The Gulf»

Tunisian President Kais Saied accused parties of trying to burn the country and working on a “scorched-earth policy” by setting fire to the power of the state and its people. Yesterday, Friday, he strongly condemned the smear campaigns, forgery and lies that affected his Secretary-General and a number of his leaders.

Since the Eid al-Fitr holiday, Tunisia has witnessed a simultaneous wave of fires, affecting markets and factories, the latest of which was the outbreak of two fires yesterday, Thursday, in the oases of the city of Hamma in the Gabes governorate and the fishing port in the Sfax governorate in the southeast of the country.

Wheat silo control

During his meeting with security leaders at the headquarters of the Ministry of Interior, at dawn on Friday, Saeed called on the security and judicial authorities to prosecute all those who caused the fires and resorted to the scorched-earth policy, stressing the need to intensify security monitoring campaigns on fields and wheat silos so as not to catch fire.

Saeed attacked the “National Salvation Front” formed by the opposition, and said that it is working to dismantle the state and tamper with it by trying to form a new government and parliament and broadcasting false and misleading news and throwing themselves into the arms of the outside, and rejecting the referendum and elections, pointing out that they claim that they seek to achieve the demands of the people, but In return, they burn his power, sow the seeds of discord and incite internal strife.

Saeed reiterated his rejection of dialogue with the corrupt, in reference to the “Brotherhood Renaissance Movement” and its allied parties, calling on the judiciary to work to open cases and hold them accountable in order to achieve justice.

President Said had announced the formation of a national committee of an advisory nature to establish a “new republic”, in which everyone who supported the “July 25 process” would participate, and it would propose a set of constitutional and political reforms, as well as economic and social reforms.

Labor condemns smear campaigns

On the other hand, the Tunisian Labor Union, in a statement issued yesterday, expressed its strong condemnation of the smear campaigns, forgery and lies that targeted the Secretary-General and a number of union leaders by pages known to be affiliated with the president’s supporters and others of their affiliation with the “Brotherhood Renaissance” movement and its footnotes once morest the background of the independent positions that he expressed About the Union regarding the crisis that afflicts the country, through which it holds all parties responsible, because it pushed the country to the brink of the abyss and is striving to bring it into the whirlpool of disintegration, violence and the unknown.

During a meeting of its Executive Office supervised by Secretary-General Noureddine Taboubi, the Federation called on the judiciary to pledge these violations and track their perpetrators due to the abuse they inflict on the honor and honor of personalities and organizations, calling on all forces to confront what it described as the toxins broadcast by these virtual pages that increase the disturbance of the atmosphere and the tension of the climate. public and push to violence and terrorism because of the incitement and incitement.

The Union renewed its rejection of any adventure targeting the country’s unity through the establishment of strange parallel entities that would further deepen the crisis and push it into collision and further division, and calls for a halt to it.

The Federation also expressed its condemnation of the leaks that have been popular for some time and are attributed to the director of the former presidential office, Nadia Okasha.

In its statement, the Federation questioned its timing, objectives and those behind it, stressing its danger to public security, and denouncing its insult to the head of state and its targeting of the country’s reputation.

Ban a march for the “Free Constitutional”

In addition, the Free Constitutional Party announced that the Ministry of the Interior rejected its request to organize a march towards the Carthage Palace, on Sunday, May 15th.

The party explained, in a statement, yesterday, that the member of the Political Bureau in charge of media deposition had been notified of the Ministry of Interior’s refusal to organize the aforementioned march and warned once morest the consequences of organizing it, and the party denounced what it considered the deliberate intentionality of the owners of the country’s administration according to verbal instructions.