Reasons of Government Change in Tunisia

Four parliamentary blocs led by the Free Constitutional Party announced earlier this week their intention to withdraw confidence from Parliament Speaker Rashid Ghannouchi; For his involvement in introducing terrorist parties to the Tunisian parliament, according to their reasons, while Tunisian President Qais bin Said rejected the proposal of Al-Nahda movement in which it called for opening consultations in preparation for the change of government.

Qais bin Said, in a statement published by the Presidency of the Republic after a meeting with the Prime Minister and the Secretary General of the Tunisian General Labor Union, Noureddine Taboubi, said “There will be no consultations as long as the Prime Minister has full powers.”

The Tunisian president added: “If he resigns or a blame list is directed against him, at that time the president can hold consultations, without that there will be no consultations.”

The Al-Nahda Shura Council, held on Sunday 12 July 2020, decided to instruct the President of the Al-Nahda Movement, Rashid Ghannouchi, to hold consultations with the President of the Republic, parties and national organizations to agree on an alternative government scene for the government of Elias Al-Fakhfakh.

The Tunisian Prime Minister, Elias Al-Fakhakh, also revealed his willingness to make amendments to the government, hinting at the possibility of excluding ministers affiliated with the party.

The head of the Tunisian government emphasized that the invitation of the Ennahda movement to form a new government is a flagrant violation of the political contract it holds with the components of the government coalition.

And the traps stressed that the call of the Renaissance movement constitutes contempt for the vital stability of state institutions and the country’s exhausted economy, noting that the movement’s actions have weakened the harmony of the government.

In a press statement carried by local media, the Tunisian Prime Minister said: “We have been subjected to vigorous endeavors by the Ennahda movement, aimed at making fundamental changes in the way we work.”

In his first response to this statement, a member of the executive bureau of the Renaissance movement, Muhammad Khalil Baraoumi, wrote a post on Facebook saying that “the constitution has mechanisms to respond to the prime minister.”

He also commented by saying: “The speech of the President of the Republic is clear and accurate, and he adheres to the work of the constitution and its mechanisms for any governmental change, and this we agree with him and does not contradict the political initiative launched by Al-Nahda.”

In his article for the Tunisian journalist, Terry Prizes, entitled “The Renaissance or the Sick Man of Tunisian Politics,” the writer denounced the crises that Ennahda is going through in the current period, touching on internal cleavages and crises that weaken the Brotherhood’s existence in the political scene.

Moreover, he pointed out that Al-Nahdha despite its first place in the recent parliamentary elections, the results that it reached combined with parties that have strained relations, justifying the crises that Al-Nahdha is going through, especially the attempts to exclude Al-Ghannushi from the presidency of Parliament.