In a video sequence shared by the Presidency of the Tunisian Republic on Facebook, on the occasion of the start of a hunger strike, to demand “the resumption of the democratic path and the condemnation of the individual regime”
Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed warned this Thursday against “hatched conspiracies” against Tunisia, going as far as “assassination”.
This is what emerges from video footage, shared on the official Facebook page of the Tunisian presidency, at a time when a hunger strike was started by opponents to demand “the resumption of the democratic process and the condemnation of the individual plan”.
Saïed declared: “there are plots being hatched in Tunisia, which, for some, go as far as assassination (…) there was a phone call, according to the Minister of the Interior, who even speaks of the day of the assassination”, without providing further details.
The Tunisian president added: “Tunisians should pay attention to what is being plotted today by certain traitors (whom he has not named) who have sold their conscience to the foreign secret services, to assassinate a number of senior citizens.”
And to continue: “We are not clinging to life, but rather to the level of trust that people have placed in us. We are aware of what they are planning inside and outside”.
Saïed also affirmed: “we must clarify the situation of the country, so that every citizen has the right to live in dignity and in freedom”, according to the same source.
Earlier today Thursday, the “Citizens Against the Coup” initiative announced the start of a hunger strike by parliamentarians and politicians, including former president Moncef Marzouki, “as a sign rejection of the individual regime and the suppression of the voices of opponents”.
The “Citizens against the coup” initiative is a popular movement that has proposed a roadmap to end the political crisis in Tunisia, suggesting the holding of early presidential and legislative elections, in the second half of 2022.
Tunisia has been going through a serious political crisis since July 25, after the adoption of exceptional measures by the President of the country, Kaïs Saïed, including in particular the freezing of the prerogatives of Parliament, the lifting of the immunity of its deputies, the abolition of the body for the control of the constitutionality of laws, the promulgation of laws by presidential decrees, the dismissal of the Prime Minister and the formation of a new government.
Leading political and social forces in Tunisia have announced their rejection of these exceptional decisions, considering them “a monopoly of opinion and a consolidation of the individual regime”. Certain other movements supported Saïed’s measures seeing in them an expression of the aspirations of the people.
