Afek Tounes announces this Thursday, September 22 his decision “not to participate in the next legislative elections, and calls on the Tunisian people, with their various political and civil components, to fight against political authoritarianism and the rapid deviation towards personal power and basic plan”.
In a press release published at the end of his national council, yesterday Wednesday, Afek Tounes considers that “the constitution of Kaïs Saïed of July 25, 2022, includes a substantial change in the political regime, which necessarily requires, and in parallel, the holding of legislative and presidential elections.
Afek considers “the electoral decree-law as being” the first stone for the so-called grassroots construction regime, not to mention the flaws related to the representativeness of women and youth, geographical distribution, public funding of political life, the aggravation of clientelism, and clan and regionalist fibers, which contributes to the dismantling of the State, and threatens the stability and the unity of its institutions.”
The party calls on Kaïs Saïed “to organize an early presidential election, on the basis of the new constitution, after having lost its political and legal legality, following the abrogation of the 2014 constitution, on the basis of which it was elected”.
Afek Tounes also expresses his “deep concern over the deterioration of the economic and social situation, the high cost of living, and the absence of all the attributes of development and a decent life, in the face of the silence of the power in place, the lack of skills and his inability to find solutions, and makes Kaïs Saïed assume responsibility for this catastrophic situation”.
Several parties and coalitions had announced a boycott of the December 17 election and criticized the new electoral law, as amended by Decree-Law No. 55.
