2024-04-10 23:00:22
Tunisian President Kais Saied announced his intention to run in the presidential elections expected at the end of this year, saying that the issue is “a matter of life and death,” and renewed his criticism of the opposition, which he accused of receiving support from abroad.
Saied’s statements came during a ceremony commemorating the death of Habib Bourguiba, the first president of the Tunisian Republic during independence from France, where Saied moved to Bourguiba’s shrine and made these statements to present himself as the leader of a new political phase in the history of Tunisia.
President Saied believes that the current stage of Tunisia’s history is like the stage of independence from France, a stage of national liberation and the building of a new economy and society.
“Saeed” renewed his attack on the Tunisian opposition and its political positions regarding the path that it approved since July 25, 2021, and described the presidential elections as “a matter of survival or extinction and a battle of national liberation.”
The presidential elections raise controversy among the Tunisian opposition, and positions are still different regarding them, and there are divisions within the opposition, which perhaps indicates a weak bet on winning these elections.
The leftist and democratic parties have decided the matter once and for all and consider merely participating in the elections to be a consecration of the political path of Tunisian President Kais Saied, which they consider a coup against the constitution and democracy.
There are other parties whose positions are still closer to participation, as they have not officially announced their participation in the presidential elections, but through the statements of their leaders and officials, they hint at the possibility of fielding a candidate if the necessary conditions for fair competition are met.
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2024-04-10 23:00:22