Ghannouchi visits Essebsi’s grave, desperate attempt to win sympathy
On Republic Day, which coincides with the day of the referendum in Tunisia, as voters head towards the polling stations, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Rached Ghannouchi, rushed to the cemetery of the late Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi.
The official Facebook page of the leader of the Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood published two pictures of him from inside the grave of Caid Essebsi, who died on July 25, 2019. Observers considered the political scene “hypocrisy and lies”.
The hypocrisy of my brothers. After Ghannouchi betrayed Caid Essebsi over his alliance with Youssef Chahed, the former head of the government, and pulled the rug from under Essebsi’s feet, he today rushed to his grave in a desperate attempt to win the sympathy of Tunisians.
Ghannouchi insisted on supporting Chahed in 2019, wishing himself that he had the ability to tame him as he wished. The end of Beji Caid Essebsi, who died as a laborer, was in pain over the sense of “treachery”, marginalization and humiliation inflicted on him by the Brotherhood and his party’s children.
Ghanouchi had allied with Chahed to oust Caid Essebsi in 2019 after Essebsi tried to open the file of political assassinations and the secret service of the Brotherhood, where he met with the defense of Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi a few months before his death.
As for the Witness, he turned against his symbolic “father” and gave him the credit, and he fell into the embrace of the Brotherhood for narrow political ambitions and interests.
In 2019, he announced his intention in detail to open the files of the terrorism that struck Tunisia in recent years before it was 19 years old and died after a health problem.
But in January, authorities opened an investigation into the death of the late president Beji Caid Essebsi.
The Minister of Justice ordered the opening of the investigation in accordance with the provisions of article 23 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, after Sheikh Mohamed Al-Hentati, former leader of Ennahdha movement, raised the matter on a private TV program “The Choice” on the death of the former president and his circumstances.
Two months ago, political activist and lawyer Mondher Bel Hadj Ali, who is close to the late president, said that the Carthage palace was a hack and that the late president Beji Caid Essebsi could have been poisoned, stressing that he is still not convinced that Caid Essebsi died a natural death.
He said he met the late president days before his illness and informed him that he had decided to engage in a battle with Ennahdha’s secret service, adding that Ghannouchi then informed Essebsi of the end of their reconciliation.
Bel Hadj spoke about the meeting between Essebsi and Rached Ghannouchi, the head of the movement, when the agreement between Ennahdha and the party of the late president Nidaa Tounes was terminated. He said that he had learned from Essebsi that “Ghannouchi visited him to let him know that the agreement between the two parties is over”, and that the late president had told Ghannouchi “judge alone with Youssef Chahed (the former head of the government)”.
Essebsi has served as president since 2014, while he led the Nidaa Tounes Movement after its founding in 2012. Essebsi was known to have been a leading opponent of the Brotherhood and political Islam in Tunisia before his election as president.
