Chahed to Run for Upcoming Presidential Elections
Prime Minister Youssef Chahed might be Long Live
Tounes Party’s candidate for the next presidential election, said its founding
member Salim al-Azabi.
He stressed that Chahed represents, in all cases,
the political leader of this party, which was founded on January 27, 2018.
In a media statement, Azabi said that President Beji
Caid Essebsi was invited to be a guest of honor at the Party’s founding
conference.
He said Essebsi was also invited on April 6 to
attend the opening session of Nidaa Tounes’s conference, the party that is
headed by Hafez Caid Essebsi.
As for calling on Essebsi to lift the freeze on the
Premier’s membership in Nida Tounes, Azabi explained that Chahed is now “the
political leader of Long Live Tounes Party.”
On the other hand, Secretary General of Tunisian
General Labor Union (UGTT) Noureddine Taboubi exchanged accusations and verbal
attacks with French Ambassador to Tunisia Olivier Poivre d'Arvor, who was
accused of preparing for the re-colonization of Tunisia.
D'Arvor, for his part, denied the charges and said
in a media statement that these statements were not issued by him, describing
them as “terrifying, absurd and totally irrational.”
“These statements are unreasonable and illusory,” he
said, expressing great respect for the UGTT and stressing that the relationship
between Tunisia and France is “very close and built on the great respect”.
