Tunisia.. 3rd parliamentary petition to withdraw confidence from Ghannouchi

On Monday, Tunisian parliamentarians filed a petition in Parliament to withdraw confidence from its president, Rached Ghannouchi, leader of the Ennahda Movement, so that a plenary session will be scheduled within the next three weeks to put it to a vote.

8 February, 2021 09:13

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In the third parliamentary attempt, Tunisian MPs filed a petition to withdraw confidence from the Speaker of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People, Rached Ghannouchi.

Parliamentary sources told Al-Ain News that the representatives of the Free Constitutional Party (16 seats), the Democratic Bloc (38 seats), and the Long Live Tunisia Party (11 seats) managed to collect 73 signatures to withdraw confidence from Ghannouchi (a quorum that can be put forward again on parliamentary confidence).

Observers believe that this step is serious and feasible in the face of the "great danger" that Rashid Ghannouchi and his movement represent to the country.

It is expected that the petition will be formally filed today in Parliament, so that a plenary session will be scheduled within the next three weeks.

Sources in the Heart of Tunisia Party (30 seats), which is allied with the Ennahda Movement, said that a number of MPs are adopting the draft of withdrawing confidence from Ghannouchi, noting that at least 10 members of the party have expressed their refusal to continue the alliance with the Ennahda Movement that represents the Muslim Brotherhood, the natural place of the party is in the fissure of the secular parties.

The Free Constitutional Party had already launched a similar petition at the beginning of last year, at the beginning of Ghannouchi's assumption of the presidency of Parliament, about which a large number of parliamentarian did not meet.

While the second attempt was in the middle of last year, in which the opposition democratic parliamentary bloc succeeded in collecting more than 73 signatures, and the petition was filed with the Tunisian Legislative Council office.

The new attempt came after Tunis witnessed demonstrations against Rashid Ghannouchi and the Ennahda Movement, during which chants described him as a "killer" amid mounting anger over the economic decline that cast a shadow on the lives of millions of Tunisians.

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