According to a press release from Rached Ghannouchi, leader of the movement of Islamic obedience “Ennahdha”, and president of the Parliament, whose work has been suspended since the exceptional measures decided by the Tunisian president, Kaรฏs Saรฏed.
The president of the Tunisian movement “Ennahdha”, Rached Ghannouchi, and the French ambassador to Tunisia, Andrรฉ Parant, on Wednesday discussed the evolution of the situation in the country, in view of the acute political crisis which has continued since September. July 25.
On that date, the Head of State, Kaรฏs Saรฏed, had taken a series of exceptional measures, notably suspending the work of Parliament and lifting the immunity enjoyed by deputies.
He had also suspended the Body for the Control of the Constitutionality of Laws and decided to legislate by means of decrees, just as he dismissed from his post the head of government, Hichem Mechichi, thus taking the head of the executive, assisted by a government whose head he appointed in the person of the academic, Najla Bouden Romdhane.
A statement published on Ghannouchi’s official “Facebook” page indicated that the leader of the “Ennahdha” movement, the majority party in the frozen Parliament (53 deputies out of 217), discussed with the French ambassador “recent developments in the situation. in Tunisia”.
“During this meeting in which Ali Larayedh, vice-president of the movement took part, the two parties stressed the need to support relations between Tunisia and France to serve the interests of the two countries,” the statement added.
The majority of Tunisian political forces, including the “Ennahdha” movement, reject the decisions of Saรฏed, which they consider to be “a coup d’รฉtat against the Constitution”, while other parties support them, believing that It is about a “restoration of the process of the Revolution” of 2011, which had deposed the regime of the former president, Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
In recent months, the Tunisian capital, Tunis, has been the scene of protest movements, in which thousands of people have taken part, to denounce the exceptional measures of the Head of State.
Saรฏed had repeatedly tried to reassure Tunisian public opinion and foreign chancelleries, by affirming that he did not intend to establish an autocratic regime in Tunisia, nor to undermine rights and freedoms, but aims to remedy the situation through reforms, after having invoked the existence of an “imminent peril” which threatens the Tunisian state.