The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, which has won the Nobel Peace Prize, has proposed to the president and the government ways to overcome the crisis in Tunisia.
A total of 68 national figures, including 15 former ministers, signed a letter on solutions to the country’s health, social and economic problems.
Signatories include more than 20 professors in medicine and pharmacy, as well as businessmen, investors, academics and influential figures from the civil society.
Four of the signatories have won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015 for their contributions in rescuing Tunisia from the political crisis that erupted in 2013.
They are General Secretary of the Tunisian General Labor Union Hussein Abbasi, head of the Tunisian Bar Association Mohamed al-Fadel Mahfouz, chief of Tunisia's Human Rights League Abdul Satar Bin Mousa and President of the Tunisian Union of Industry, Trade and Crafts Wedad Boushmawi.
Observers saw their initiative as a “political message to the ruling system,” mainly the coalition led by Ennahda Movement.
The signatories called on the president and the government to order a national mobilization to get out of the crisis, and to avoid growing social rage that has led to protests.
Tunisian analyst Jamel Arfaoui told Asharq Al-Awsat that with their initiative, the signatories are ringing the alarm bell for the government.
