Tunisian president accuses these parties of seeking to thwart the referendum on the constitution – details
Just days before the referendum on the constitution of the “New Republic” on July 25, Tunisian President Kais Saied accused what he described as “adversaries” of seeking to thwart it.
This came during a happy meeting yesterday with Prime Minister Najla Bouden at the Carthage Palace, according to a statement from the Tunisian presidency on its official page through the social networking website Facebook. The meeting stressed the need for full preparation for the referendum, in order to “divide the people with its final word”.
Amidst persistent attempts by Ennahdha, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Tunisia, to push Tunisians to boycott the referendum on the constitution on the one hand, and to disrupt the technical systems of the referendum, on the other hand, Saied said that some parties that are against the people’s sovereignty are desperately trying to thwart this important historical date by all the means they used in the past.
The President of Tunisia stressed that the law would apply to anyone who would in any way attempt to undermine the sovereign right of the people to express there will freely.
Last week, the Tunisian presidency announced that the electronic voter registration site had been subjected to 1700 attacks or electronic hacking, and that the authorities had investigated seven people so far, considering these hacks a desperate attempt to create chaos and confusion on the day of the referendum.
According to the Tuniscop website, there are about 9 million eligible voters on a date to vote in the referendum on the constitution of the “New Republic” on July 25, in about 4500 polling stations, including 11,200 polling stations in Tunisia and about 300 polling stations abroad.
The Tunisian President declared, at the end of March, the dissolution of the Parliament, which is predominantly Ennahdha members, after 8 months from the suspension of its work on July 25, 2021, in exceptional measures that his opponents described as a “coup against legitimacy”, while he confirmed that it is a correction to the revolutionary course.
Saied accused members of the dissolved parliament from Ennahdha of seeking to “divide the country and sow discord”, saying: “The stars of the sky are closer to them than that, and what they are doing now is a flagrant conspiracy against the security of the state”.
