What comes after the constitution and the Brotherhood status? Answers
Sarhan Nasri, head of the Coalition for Tunisia, which is close to President Kais Saied, said the new election law will not tolerate anyone who has committed crimes against the country.
Nasri said, “We will set forth articles that will investigate all those who committed crimes against the country and all those who caused the collapse of the political, economic and social scene, foremost among them Ennahdha and other corrupt parties.”
The new law settles the conditions for running in the December 17th parliamentary elections.
The political scene in Tunisia is waiting for the electoral law to be issued in order to determine its position on the legislative elections.
Brotherhood Exclusion
“To make the next elections a success and to produce a new parliament that is far removed from the 2019 parliament that has been dissolved since July 25, 2021, a sound law must be drafted in a participatory manner with President Kais Saied, national political parties, and civil society components,” Nasri said.
The Tunisian president will work to exclude all those who have committed crimes against the country and those who have electoral crimes, such as Ennahdha, from running in the next parliamentary election,” he said. “The political scene will be purged of these candidates.
Responding to referendum skeptics
Regarding campaigns that cast doubt on the integrity of the July 25th referendum, Sarhan Nasri said, “What the Independent High Electoral Commission did is a historic achievement, as it carried out a successful referendum within a short period of time.”
“The mistakes that took place were ordinary mistakes that were the result of human activity and did not affect the content of the referendum and its results,” he said. Therefore, all the campaigns of doubt are false.
“Those who reject the reform process are behind campaigns that question the results of the referendum,” he said.
“The rejectionist parties are Ennahdha and its Ikhwanite arms from the Salvation Front and others, which include Brotherhood members and personalities who have lost the spirit of patriotism and have fallen into the lap of the Brotherhood,” he said.
“There are associations, within civil society, that question the integrity of the referendum as well, including I Am Awake, and others,” he said. “They are foreign-funded groups behind which Ennahdha stands.
He continued: “We do not see long-established national organizations and national parties that want to benefit the country and are skeptical about the results of the referendum, which supports this electoral process.”
Review assignments
“The Tunisian Elections Commission must work in the upcoming stage in the legislative elections on December 17th to review some of the observations so as not to give a bad picture of some of the commission’s work,” he said.
“The results of the referendum on the new constitution have brought the Brotherhood system closer to the country,” he said. “This constitution will enter into force in the next few days.”
Rejecting foreign interference
Nasri said that since July 25, 2012, we have seen nothing but escalation from the US side on “rejecting the reform path implemented by Tunisian President Kais Saied, and calling for democracy and the return of institutions to their activity, which is a national demand in the first place that no country should interfere in.”
He continued: “We did not see any concern from the American Foreign Ministry when terrorism came to us and when the Brotherhood caused the political and economic scene to collapse and systematically beat the institutions and the civil state.”
“His party has previously expressed its rejection of blatant interference in national sovereignty,” he said, adding that “recalling the charge d’affaires at the US embassy and sending a message to blame her for respecting national affairs is acceptable and we support him.”
Last Friday, the Tunisian Foreign Ministry confirmed that it summoned the Charge d’Affaires at the American Embassy because of a press statement issued by the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the “political path of the country” and the results of the referendum on the new draft constitution.
