In Tunisia, the new finance law was promulgated last Friday and since then discontent has not subsided. This controversy comes as Tunisia is going through a period of intense political and economic turbulence.
Published Friday evening, the day before the weekend, the finance law does not go unnoticed in Tunisia. With taxes on the rise, it arouses an outcry. Lawyers, trade unionists, and even chartered accountants are multiplying their criticisms of this text. They accuse the executive of suffocating Tunisian citizens a little more with taxes.
Some fear that the increase in taxation will aggravate inflation, especially since the text also provides for the reduction of compensation on the price of fuel.
Insufficient aid
Some aid for the neediest families has been approved, but they are not enough to extinguish criticism. Especially since in the absence of Parliament, it was in Carthage, the seat of the presidency, that decisions were taken. The executive is also increasing the state budget from 18 to 21 billion euros in one year.
By concentrating all powers, Kaïs Saïed now risks concentrating all discontent. More than ever, the Tunisian President seems to face the test of reality. The master of Carthage is now torn between the social demands of his people and the injunctions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which conditions the granting of new loans to the recovery of public accounts.
