At a time when the Tunisian President, Kaïs Saïed, is accused of trying to completely deconstruct the political system of his country, the opposition once morest his project is strengthening, fueled by the feeling that the Head of State is building a new autocracy, eleven years following the fall of Ben Ali.
On January 1, the Tunisian government launched, as best it might, the national consultation ordered by the President of the Republic, Kaïs Saïed, as part of its desire to propose a major overhaul of the Constitution and institutions.
A much criticized consultation, including by the free media, which wondered, as Business News, whether or not they should echo this controversial consultation in both substance and form.
“We cannot extract this national consultation from the global context in which it occurs. We are faced with a coup regime, resulting from a violation of the Constitution and which consecrates the grabbing of power by a single man, Kaïs Saïed. From there, the mission to protect democracy and to fight for its sustainability and its restoration takes precedence over the duty to inform. Consequently, the media coverage and promotion of this consultation operation amounts to propaganda for a putschist regime ”, writes the editorial writer of Business News, Marouen Achouri.
Dilemma
A dilemma for the independent media, which coincides with a hardening of political opposition once morest the head of state, especially following what his critics call the“removal” one of the strongmen of the Islamist Ennahda party, Noureddine Bhiri.
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Malik Ben Salem
