File of leftist politicians' assassination popping up in Tunisia again
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.
