Kais Saied – Is Tunisia amending the current Constitution?
Tunisia is witnessing a lot of controversy and interpretations regarding the possibility of amending the constitution in the current circumstances, following the recent decisions in July to freeze the parliament and dissolve the government.
The Muslim Brotherhood Ennahdha Movement is in a state of great anticipation in light of the discovery of its corruption.
Is no longer valid
Tunisian President Kais Saied said that the country’s main problem is the 2014 constitution, which has proven to be invalid.
Saied received Thursday at the Carthage Palace by Brigadier General Sadok Belaid, Brigadier General Mohamed Saleh Ben Aissa and Amine Mahfouz, professor of constitutional law at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences in Sousse.
The Tunisian president stressed that those who respect the sovereignty of the people do not seek the help of foreign parties to undermine it, but that the future is determined by the people, and that building the future is not through insults, infringements on state institutions and slander.
He stressed that “the path is clear: sovereignty will be returned to the people in a totally new and different way, and a legal solution must be based on the will and sovereignty of the people”.
He added: “Today, there must be a legal solution, sovereignty must be returned to the people, and there is no turning back. History is moving towards the future, and it will not be late”.
Kais Saied said that Tunisia is going through a new historical period within the framework of legitimacy that guarantees rights and freedoms.
“We have the documents that condemn them (the Brotherhood), and the Tunisian courts should play their role in arranging the legal results of these documents, which proved before the Court of Accounts that a number of electoral lists for the 2019 elections received money from abroad, and this was documented by the US Department of Justice”, he said.
Amending the Tunisian Constitution
Tunisia is moving towards amending the current constitution, as President Kais Saied alluded to, in the absence of a constitutional court and a freeze on the work of the House of Representatives.
Tunisian writer and political affairs expert Bassel Terjman says: It is important to wait for the mechanisms that the president decides to adopt in the amendment, because the 2014 constitution states that the president is the only one who has the right to interpret the constitution in the absence of the constitutional court.
He added: “Kais Saied is a specialist in constitutional law and is expected to consult with his constitutional law advisors to find the appropriate formula to amend the current constitution”.
