Tunisian opposition political leaderships have demanded ending the current ruling regime, led by the moderate Islamist Ennahda Movement.
They also called for dismissing the current political rulers and laying the foundations of the “third republic” that ends all relations with the regime that has been in power since the 2011 revolution.
Head of the opposition Project of Tunisia Movement Mohsen Marzouk slammed the current ruling system, comparing it to a “rope that binds the country and its potential.”
Changing the entire political system is the “best way” to overcome its failures, he said, noting that all successive government have been formed on the basis of quotas and alliances with opponents.
The system is a “rotting corpse” and the partisan system no longer serves the interests of the state, he added.
Sahbi Ben Faraj, former member of the Tahya Tounes party, accused Ennahda of controlling political life without finding a way out of the political impasse.
“Ennahda accuses whoever wants to deviate from the political system of attempting to overthrow the regime and of opposing the revolution,” he noted, adding that it has now found itself alone and confronted with demands for political and social change.
The current ruling system produced ten failed governments because it relied on quotas and feudalism in its distribution of ministerial portfolios, whereby ministers were more concerned about their positions than serving public interest.
Marzouk and Ben Faraj called on President Kais Saied to hold a national dialogue conference that would establish the “third republic system” and propose a new social contract.
