The general secretary of the Tunisian General Labor Union declared: “Unfortunately, we have not seen any positive motive so far, which could lead the UGTT to give a blank check”.
The general secretary of the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT), Noureddine Taboubi, announced on Saturday that the central trade union rejects any “unconditional support” for the exceptional measures of July 25 decided by Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed.
This is what emerges from a speech made by Taboubi at a press conference on the sidelines of a sectoral conference organized by the UGTT in Hammamet (north).
“Our country, unfortunately, endures a crisis. This country, which has all the means to succeed, has found no one to save it, and today it needs more than ever a national impetus. reformist to get out of this crisis,” said Taboubi.
And the secretary-general of the country’s main union to add “We were convinced by the exceptional measures of July 25 decided by the president (Saïed) in view of the rotting political situation which has compromised the aspirations of the Tunisian people, and more again those of young people who dream of a dignified life and decent work we said to ourselves that we needed a new option to build Tunisia’s future by drawing the consequences from all the mistakes of the past”.
“Unfortunately, we have not seen any positive motive so far – despite the considerable time that has elapsed since the announcement of the measures of July 25 – which could lead the UGTT to give a blank check”, lamented the official. union.
In a press release published on October 29, the UGTT urged the President of the Republic, Kaïs Saïed, to put an end to the state of emergency in the country and to define guidelines so as to create the necessary conditions for stability to continue building democracy.
Tunisia has been in the throes of an acute political crisis since July 25. On that date, Kaïs Saïed had taken a series of exceptional measures, notably suspending the work of Parliament and lifting the immunity enjoyed by deputies.
He had also suspended the Body for the Control of the Constitutionality of Laws and decided to legislate by means of decrees, just as he dismissed from his post the head of government, Hichem Mechichi, thus taking the head of the executive, assisted by a government whose head he appointed in the person of the academic Najla Bouden.
The majority of Tunisian political forces reject Saïed’s decisions, which it considers to be “a coup against the Constitution”, while other parties support them, believing that it is a “restoration of the Revolution process ”of 2011, which had deposed the regime of the former president, Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
