The Ennahda movement considered that, after condemning his opponents and appointing someone to prosecute them, the President of the State, Kais Saied, had no choice but to stand himself on the judges’ sofa and pass judgments at his whim.
The movement said that if there was nothing left for him to erect himself on the judges’ sofa to cheer the members of the defense committee of the two martyrs, Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi, which the statement described as a “deception body.”
A few days ago, travel ban decisions were issued for the movement’s leader, Rashid Ghannouchi, and other people in connection with the judicial investigation related to the so-called “secret apparatus” of the Ennahda movement.
The movement condemned the practices of the Brahmi and Belaid defense committee, saying that it is a defense body that “supports the coup” and that it has a “functional role in serving its agenda,” stressing what it said “coincided” between the body’s last press conference and the president’s decision to dismiss a number of judges. Similar to its previous symposium coinciding with the President’s decision to dissolve the Supreme Judicial Council, early last February.
The Ennahda movement strongly denounced what it said was “a policy of distortion and systematic intimidation of judges,” considering that the dismissal of 57 judges was “outside the law and the constitution,” and that “the revision of the decree related to the Interim Supreme Judicial Council was carried out to pass that dismissal,” which represents another step in the hand. The judiciary, ending the independence of the judiciary and using it to strike political opponents, restrict freedoms, and focus the system of individual rule.
On the other hand, Ennahda warned of what it considered the danger of “authoritarian methods” to overthrow the legitimate leadership of the Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fishing, and to try to split its ranks and strike its legitimate institutions, and to employ the security establishment, warning against using these methods against other organizations, parties and associations, in an effort to force it to Retreat from its opposition to the coup and its policies.
Ennahda called “all forces that believe in freedom, democracy and national sovereignty to unite their speech and strengthen their efforts and struggles in order to end the coup and limit its dangerous repercussions” after the “coup” became a major obstacle to a comprehensive and comprehensive national dialogue to get the country out of its complex crisis.