National personalities considered that any reform of the political system, the electoral law or Justice can only be done through a comprehensive dialogue that outlines the orientations and mechanisms for a return to constitutional legitimacy.

A joint statement was issued on Tuesday and signed by over 70 personalities including MPs and former ministers, notably Ayachi Hammami, Dalila Msaddak, Ghazi Chaouachi, Issam Chebbi, Sami Said, Sihem Ben Sedrine, Mohamed Hamdi, Khaled Chouket, Tarek Fetiti, Ridha Belhaj, Yassine Ayari and Walid Jalled.

“Tunisia’s salvation from the current financial, economic and social crisis can be achieved only through a national dialogue that sets the guidelines,” the signatories stress.

They point out that “the political crisis reached its peak on July 25, 2021, and has led to a total paralysis of State institutions, a recurring economic crisis and a failure to address the health crisis that has cost thousands of lives, the result of failed successive governments and mainly the ruling coalition led by the Ennahdha Movement.”

They claim to be “mobilised to defend democracy and the return to constitutional legality under a representative democracy that guarantees the separation of powers and preserves rights and freedoms.”

The signatories further recall that 100 days have elapsed since the “coup” of President Kaïs Saïed “who violated the Constitution” and who “threatens rights and freedoms,” decrying a “return to the single and absolute power that the country has long suffered.”

Source: Tap News Agency