November 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Islamist party Ennahda has reiterated its decision to boycott the legislative elections called for December and has affirmed that its structures and followers are prohibited from participating in any way in the preparations for the elections.
Nizar Habubi, a member of the party’s executive committee, has highlighted that the decision to boycott the constitutional referendum in July has been extended to the legislatures and has once again accused the president, Kais Saied, of “a coup against the Constitution”, according to informed the Tunisian state news agency, TAP.
Thus, he has affirmed that the legislatures “will result in a Parliament made to measure and without effective prerogatives”, before insisting that the president will later try to “extend his mandate”, just a few days after a Tunisian court issued a ban on trip against the leader of the Islamist party Ennahda and president of the dissolved Parliament, Rachid Ghanuchi, in the framework of an investigation against him for alleged corruption.
The opposition National Salvation Front, which brings together dozens of parties and civil organizations, announced in September that it will boycott the elections called by Saied in the framework of his exceptional measures after assuming all powers in July 2021.
Tunisia is plunged into a serious political crisis due to Saied’s decision in July 2021 to dissolve the Government and suspend Parliament, later dissolved, amid opposition complaints about an authoritarian drift on the part of the president.
The opposition has already boycotted the constitutional referendum in July, which reinforced the powers of the president and took weight away from Parliament, which was dominated by Ennahda at the time when Saied proceeded to dissolve it nearly a year and a half ago.
