The Tunisian “Renaissance”: We are not above accountability and excluding us will not restore democracy news
The Tunisian Renaissance Movement confirmed today, Thursday, that it is not above accountability, considering that its exclusion from the scene “produced a dictatorship and will not return true democracy” to the country.
The movement considered – in a statement on the occasion of the 44th anniversary of its founding – that “democracy is known as the existence of the movement in the political arena, and tyranny is known for its absence or its absence.”
“Our ten people lived a hard-line democratic transmission (2011-2021), in which he did not achieve all their hopes of development, but he did not waste their freedom,” she added.
On January 14, 2011, popular protests overthrew the regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and Al -Nahda won the first elections after the revolution, on October 23, 2011, and took power between 2012 and 2014 through a coalition government with two other parties.
However, the movement was forced to step down after the situation was strained and the assassination of left -wing leaders, Shukri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi, in 2013, as it delivered the ruling to the government of technocrats in January 2014.
The movement continued in its statement, “International organizations launched Tunisia during the decade of the free country, a characteristic of our country, and no other Arab country participated in it.”
She added, “But since July 25, 2021, the history of the coup against democracy and the focus of the absolute individual rule, our country has lost the status of the free country.”
On that day, Tunisian President Qais Saeed began imposing exceptional measures that included the solution of the Judicial and Representatives Councils, the issuance of legislation with presidential orders, the approval of a new constitution for a referendum, and the holding of early legislative elections.
Tunisian powers, including the Renaissance, are considered “a coup against the constitution and the consolidation of an absolute individual rule”, while other forces see them as “a correction of the course of the 2011 revolution”, which toppled President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
While Said says that his actions “measures within the framework of the constitution to protect the state from an imminent danger,” stressing not to prejudice freedoms and rights.
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Freedom loss
Al -Nahda went on, saying, “Our people lost their freedom and did not achieve their dignity, so unemployment increased, poverty spread, and the university elites fled abroad, the economy was disrupted, and the living materials were lacking.”
“The scenes of the queues became familiar, and the northern Mediterranean countries (Europe) greed to bite our sovereignty, and our country turned into a border guard with it,” to prevent irregular migration, according to the movement.
She considered that “the bullets that assassinated the two martyrs, Shukri Belaid and Mohamed Braham, were intended to assassinate the democratic experience and the overthrow of the government led by the Renaissance.”
The Renaissance responded to the demands of the movement to submit self -criticism for the period of its rule or its participation in government, saying, “Throughout decades, our people have experienced the nature of political life without the Islamists, and the bottom line is that there is no real democracy without them, and the exclusion of the Renaissance produced the dictatorship in the past, and excluding it in the future will not restore true democracy.”
“We want it to be accountable with a constructive national spirit, and we want an evaluation that everyone is subjected without exception, until we stand on the real reasons that weakened our democratic experience, and led to its collapse in front of the crawling of populism,” she added.
