The Free Destourian Party (PDL) announced in a press release published yesterday, Friday, September 20, 2024, the organization of a national protest march against the excesses that tainted the electoral process of the presidential election of October 6.
This march, scheduled for September 28, 2024, will start from Bab Souika Square, in the working-class district considered the historic stronghold of the Neo-Destour party, which the PDL claims, heading towards Bab Benat Avenue where the government palace and various ministries (Finance, Education, Social Affairs, Cultural Affairs, Defense and Justice) are located.
The march will be marked by a sit-in protest in front of the Tunis Palace of Justice so that marchers can express their solidarity with lawyer Abir Moussi, president of the party, imprisoned since October 3, 2023, and prosecuted in several cases that her supporters consider to be fabricated to prevent her from presenting her candidacy for the presidential election on October 6.
The PDL press release denounces, for the umpteenth time, the “judicial, political and human injustice” imposed on its president and another leader, Meriem Sassi, in detention since last March and who was sentenced on May 30 to 8 months in prison.
The party reiterates its defense of “the right of political activists, journalists, trade unionists and the various components of civil society attached to the civil republic and to the rights recognized by the State of independence to political action and free expression, without repression or restrictions, as well as the right of the Tunisian people to enjoy their internationally recognized constitutional rights.”
The PDL also renewed, in the same statement, its right to organize peaceful and legitimate popular movements following the law.