Tunisia’s Ennahda movement is pushing for an all-inclusive national dialogue to restore democratic ethos in the country. The movement on Wednesday called for a comprehensive national dialogue to form a political front in order to resume democracy and re-establish legitimacy in the government.
Majority of seats in the country’s disrupted parliament were held by Ennahda. It urged “all anti-coup forces to unite efforts and options and to conclude a common ground through a comprehensive national dialogue.”
In a statement, Ennahda said the aim of the dialogue is “to form a political front that leads the political and popular movement and accelerates the resumption of democratic life and the restoration of legitimacy.”
Tunisian President Kais Saied ousted the government on July 25, suspended parliament, and assumed executive authority. While he insists that his “exceptional measures” are meant to “save” the country, critics have accused him of orchestrating a coup.
Ennahda expressed its “solidarity with the hunger strikers from the citizens’ campaign against the coup and the national political figures participating in it.”
Most political and Civil liberties groups in Tunisia reject Saied’s actions as a “coup against the constitution”, while many citizens support the measures as a “correction of the course of the 2011 revolution”, which overthrew then-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who ruled the country for over two decades.