The second round of legislation continues to react. Starting with President Kaïs Saïed who spoke on Monday evening following the announcement of the preliminary results. Despite the publication of the results, a certain vagueness persists in the coloring of this assembly.
While abstention in the second round of legislative elections was close to 89%, Kaïs Saïed, the Tunisian president – at the initiative of this election – does not see it as a personal defeat and wanted to make it known.
In a speech following the announcement of the results, he considered that the low turnout was, according to him, the result of the distrust of Tunisians vis-à-vis the institution of Parliament. In short, the consequence of post-revolutionary political errors.
Not enough to calm the opposition, which continues to demand the departure of the Tunisian president. The so-called National Salvation Front, made up of figures from the left and the Islamist Ennahdha party, as well as the PDL, which claims to be Bourguiba, while not hiding its nostalgia for the Ben Ali era, do not recognize the legitimacy of the new assembly.
A hemicycle is difficult at this stage to read with precision.
The candidates having competed individually and no longer under the banner of a party, Tunisia finds itself with an Assembly without well-defined political coloring.
Hatem Nafti, essayist, and author from Tunisia. Towards authoritarian populism? speaks of an “atomized ” Assembly as the master of Carthage wanted. However, he noticed – in addition to the expected presence of numerous supporters of the president – the emergence of a dozen deputies close to the pan-Arab movement Echaab.
A notable fact, still according to this observer, is the presence of people nostalgic for the Ben Ali regime in this brand-new assembly.
