According to the statements of the vice-president of the National Union of Tunisian Journalists, Amira Mohamed, while the Tunisian authorities have not issued any comment to this effect
The vice-president of the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists (Snjt), Amira Mohamed, declared on Tuesday that “preventing journalists from freely exercising their profession by prohibiting them from covering the inaugural plenary session of the new Assembly of People’s Representatives (ARP) damages the image of Tunisia”.
This is what emerges from the statements of the vice-president of the Snjt during a press conference at the union’s headquarters in Tunis, the day after the inaugural plenary of the new ARP elected during the two rounds of legislative elections in December 2022 and January 2023.
“What happened on Monday is serious and harms the new deputies by preventing them from presenting themselves to public opinion and promoting their projects and programs,” declared Amira Mohamed, who blames the power in place for the this ban.
The Tunisian authorities did not comment on the declarations of the vice-president of the Snjt.
Some 20 months after its closure, the Tunisian Parliament reopened its doors on Monday to welcome the newly elected deputies during the first session convened by President Kaïs Saïed, according to a presidential decree published last Thursday in the Official Journal of the Republic of Tunisia (JORT).
Only the official Tunisian media were authorized to cover the inaugural session of the ARP.
The new parliament was meeting, while a large number of political and civil forces in Tunisia reject the emergency measures initiated by Saïed, under the terms of which the old parliament and the Superior Council of the Judiciary were dissolved, the laws were promulgated by presidential decrees and a new Constitution was approved by referendum, which then gave rise to early legislative elections.
