Tunisia Elections Face a Brotherhood plans to Stir Up Chaos – Details
After trying to disrupt the electoral process in its first round, and before it the constitutional referendum, Tunisia’s Ennahdha Muslim Brotherhood is seeking to continue its path of chaos and subversive schemes to destroy the country, hoping for a return to government or scene once again.
Over the past few hours, the Tunisian Ministry of the Interior announced that the Justice Police had promised to open an investigation in a case related to “forming a gang, engaging in conciliation with the aim of assaulting people and property, offering money in order to influence voters, and participating in an election campaign with unknown source funding. The ministry confirmed that a number of people had planned to carry out movements aiming at spreading chaos.
The statement, just two days before the second round of parliamentary elections, said that this issue, in its entirety, coincides with what was already achieved by the in-depth security investigations, which the ministry announced last November regarding the intention of some parties to implement a sabotage plan to serve their own agendas.
In November, Tunisian authorities foiled a plot led by Moaz Ghannouchi, 41, the son of Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Ennahda movement and the brother of a former presidential candidate, to cause chaos in the country.
Ghannouchi’s son had two INTERPOL memorandums, both in cases of incitement to violence in Tunisia, and in the case of the Nama’a terrorist organization (spying and sending terrorists to hotbeds of tension).
At that time, two people were arrested in the governorate of Kasserine (in the center of the west) in connection with the distribution of money, and two others admitted to receiving money for distribution, in order to carry out riots and cause chaos by igniting tires and inflaming conditions in the neighborhoods of the city.
The confessions revealed at the time that the planning to spread chaos was carried out under the instructions of Mouth Ghannouchi, who is currently residing between Turkey and Britain. He promised them that they would provide them with the necessary funds to inflame the situation in Tunisia, and assign him to the Kasserine region, causing chaos, carrying out riots, and inciting disobedience.
Last week, Ghannouchi called for a repeat of 2011 in a televised interview, saying: “We must move quickly and save Tunisia as we did in 2011, in a veiled message to his supporters to sow chaos and chaos in order to return to power.”
The 81-year-old leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Ennahdha Movement, who is facing charges of terrorism, murder and financial corruption, added that the parliament dissolved since July 25, 2021, still retains its legitimacy, and is the only legitimate institution representing the legislative and oversight authority.
Tunisia will witness a second round of legislative elections on Sunday, and about 8 million people have been invited to participate in it, amid strong popular resentment against politicians, amid increasing economic difficulties that have burdened citizens.
The 262 candidates, including 34 women, are competing in this second round, which represents one of the final stages in establishing a presidential system that President Kais Saied has been working on since he decided in the summer of 2021 to monopolize the authorities in the country by freezing the work of parliament, dissolving it and removing the former prime minister.
