Since President Kais Saied’s July 25 reformist manifesto, which froze the parliament’s work and exempted the prime minister, Tunisians have declared their absolute support for their president.
This was driven largely by the deprivation and suffering of the people as a result of unemployment, poverty, and a decline in the standard of living, and by the direct rejection of those who led the country to this deplorable situation, especially Ennahdha, the Brotherhood’s arm in Tunisia, and its leader, Rached Ghannouchi”.
Some parties are trying to take advantage of this popular haste, but the solution always remains to set forth practical initiatives and to take proceedings to activate the laws to confront financial corruption and to prosecute the parties accused of participating in terrorist operations; especially that a political forces renewed its demands for the Tunisian president to take urgent measures in the case of judicial accounts related to the financing of terrorism and corruption, stressing the need to disband all parties that are included in the list of foreign funds, foremost among it the Ennahdha Brotherhood Movement.
President Kais Saied applied what the Tunisian people dreamed of, toppling the corruption system of the Muslim Brotherhood. He launched a war on corruption to achieving and giving priority to people’s demands, namely, dismantling the influence of Ennahdha and conducting investigations into its files, the files of its allies, and the personalities that had relations with it.
Between optimism and haste, during the past 10 years which Tunisia experienced major political and social upheavals, dominated by opportunism and treason, until corruption became a tyrant and justice became beyond reach.
Many Tunisians believe that Tunisia is a source of enlightenment and does not need imported agreements and projects that distort minds and lead to extremism and radicalism in religion, after they realized the extent of the mistakes made by the Ennahdha Movement over the past years, considering that the fake slogans, raised by Ennahdha, that “Islam and democracy are in danger” and “calling for foreign intervention” are a flagrant distortion of the country’s reputation and a betrayal of the homeland.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s “Ennahdha” movement is inclined to deal with the Tunisian president in a manner based on deceit and deception. Through its international organization, Ennahdha has contributed to the West’s intervention in Tunisia’s affairs. It also does not protest in the street itself, but rather assigns the task of demonstrating and protesting to small figures and parties whom close to it and others far from it.
The Ennahdha movement realizes that a limited protest, even if it includes a few thousand protesters, will not change the scene as long as the Tunisian president decided to turn the page on the past stage in its parliament, government and parties. It knows that President Kais Saied is as yet popular, and the popularity of the Muslim Brotherhood movement has ended.
Tunisia is currently in a phase of national liberation from corruption, political interference in the judiciary and lack of economic justice, and the fall of the Brotherhood’s corruption. The Tunisian street newly reflected the extent of the dilemma experienced by Ennahdha despite attempts by Ghannouchi to shoot up from abroad against his country, which President Kais Saied pointed out by issuing several warnings to activate the report of the Court of Accounts on the elections through a presidential decree to drop the electoral lists accused of obtaining foreign funding, which means the dissolution of the parliament.
This comes at a time when the head of the frozen parliament claimed that the parliament will “return soon”.
Tunisian President Kais Saied is facing reality tests, after he assured that the state “isn’t led in clubs, soirees, cafes, closed meetings, but within state institutions and according to the law”, which means that he chose not to renege. Meanwhile, the Tunisian people is still standing with its president and they strongly supports him in all political proceedings until he concludes the file of the political transition, for which the constitutional procedures were established.
