File of leftist politicians’ assassination popping up in Tunisia again

Sara Rashad                                                                 

Tunisian President, Kais Saied, is breaking the rules of the political game his has known since 2011.

Tunisian politicians did nothing in the face of the control Ennahda movement, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, imposed on the political stage but denounce and condemn this control.

However, Saied took the extra mile by deciding to end this control altogether on July 25. He is even holding the movement accountable for its crimes by opening an inquiry into its infringements over the years.

Parliamentary lists’ file

Saied has opened the file of foreign financing to electoral lists in the 2019 legislative elections.

On October 2, he met the head of the Tunisian Court of Accounts, Najib El Ktari, at the Carthage Palace, to discuss the same file.

This came in the presence of indications that some electoral lists had received funding from foreign parties.

The Court of Accounts had previously monitored a number of violations that were committed by some Tunisian parties, including Ennahda.

Foreign financing

Those receiving financing from foreign parties are prone to the loss of their parliament membership in the light of Article no. 163 of the Tunisian Constitution.

Some people in Tunisia call on the president, meanwhile, to open the file of the assassination of Tunisian leftist politicians Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi in 2013.

This, they say, remains to be one of the most important files on the Tunisian political stage, especially in the presence of accusations that Ennahda was implicated in the assassination of the two.

The same people call for using the assassination of the two politicians as a pressure card against Ennahda in the coming period.

President Saied met a delegation from the Martyr Mohamed Brahmi Foundation at the Presidential Palace in July last year.

The meeting was seen as an escalation by the president against Ennahda movement which controlled the Tunisian parliament at the time.