The political situation in Tunisia will be on the agenda of a plenary session of the European Parliament to be held on October 19, between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
By means of a press release published Thursday, titled “Tunisia: for an inclusive dialogue to overcome the political crisis” and consulted by the Anadolu Agency, the European Parliament considered that “the democratic system of Tunisia is threatened because of the ‘lack of separation of powers.
He specified, to this end, that a resolution concerning the political situation in Tunisia will be put to a vote during a second session scheduled for Thursday, October 21.
“The European Parliament should call on Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed to open a dialogue with the country’s main political parties and representatives of civil society to put an end to the political crisis in Tunisia,” the same source reads.
The European parliamentary institution estimates that President Saïed “currently holds almost all executive, legislative and judicial powers, after having thanked the Prime Minister and suspended Parliament in July 2021. In September, he also suspended the country’s Constitution via a presidential decree”.
And the European Parliament recalled in its press release that “Saïed has appointed a new government by decree, led by Najla Bouden Romdhane, the first woman to hold the post of Prime Minister”, observing however that “the President has significantly reduced powers of government and technically lead the administration itself ”.
“There is a growing fear that political divisions will degenerate into violent clashes between rival camps”, warns the European Parliament, which underlines that thousands of Tunisians have recently demonstrated in the streets in favor or against the exceptional measures decreed by Kaïs Saïed.
It should be noted that the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the United States House of Representatives (Congress) held a virtual hearing on Thursday, devoted to the examination of the state of democracy in Tunisia and the next steps of American policy.
President Saïed expressed, the same day, during his meeting at the Carthage Palace, with the United States Ambassador to Tunisia, Donald Blome, of his country’s discontent after the situation in Tunisia was listed in the report. business agenda of the US Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Tunisia has been in the throes of a serious political crisis since Kaïs Saïed decided on July 25 to dismiss Head of Government Hichem Mechichi, freeze the powers of Parliament for a period of 30 days, and lift the immunity of deputies, in the framework of exceptional measures. The head of state had also announced that he was assuming executive power with the help of a government of which he will appoint the head.
The tenant of Carthage had decided on September 22 to abolish the provisional body for the control of the constitutionality of bills, to legislate by presidential decrees.
