In an attempt to take advantage of the fire that occurred a few days ago at the Ennahdha Movement headquarters, the movement issued warnings for the 2014 constitution to be annulled at a meeting of its leaders following the fire.
This comes at a time when the movement is witnessing an unprecedented crisis, whether it is scaled back by the Tunisian president with his decisions for political reform or the withdrawal of dozens of its members. At a time when Tunisians are deliberating about the fire as the result of an action of the movement that was firing itself in its headquarters.
Meanwhile, Tunisia’s Ennahdha movement has warned against moving toward abolishing the 2014 constitution, calling it a “monolithic architecture of the political and legal system”.
Last July, Tunisian President Kais Saied decided to freeze the work of the parliament, dismiss the previous government, and take over executive and legislative affairs for an unspecified period. The President chose a new government headed by Najla Bouden. The fate of the parliament is still unclear, amid indications of moving towards amending the constitution and the election law; the frozen parliament will no longer be valid.
The movement said in a statement yesterday: “The executive office, which convened on Friday evening under the chairmanship of Rached Ghannouchi, is deeply moved by the tragedy of the fire that broke out on the ground floor of the central headquarters of the movement, the motives of which are not yet clear, and resulted in the death of Sami Safi, one of the movement’s fighters”, Russia Today reported.
On Thursday, the headquarters of the Ennahdha party was set on fire.
It also rejected “attempts to abolish the 2014 constitution and to unilaterally engineer Tunisia’s political and legal system”.
It warned against “the consequences of harming the constitutional structure of power by means of decrees and introducing governance into an open crisis of legitimacy, which will have very bad consequences for political stability and the future of the country”.
