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story stay with me. it is yes, political crisis is the politic 1000 rallied against the present rule. could the nation return to terrorism and all the president supporters is running out of patience? is it? ah, ah hello, welcome to the program, i'm ron kon. 10 years ago, mass protest pushed uneasy. a long time leader then l aberdeen. been alley from

power. that was the start of what would become the arab spring. but now some worried that the country could return to authoritarianism. thousands rallied in the capital tunis for a 2nd time since the president seized executive power in july, cuz he said suck the prime minister in suspended parliament, saying it was needed to fix his political and economic problems. and he sense consolidated his power further deciding to rule by decree. now, a small number of his supporters of her held a rival protest will bringing a guest in just a moment. but 1st, this report by lexi o'brien, under a heavy police presence crowd gathered on the tune as in capitals main boulevard to protest against the president. the anger has been growing since july, when high said suspended parliament and sec to the prime minister. 2 months on they still know parliament, no prime minister, and people here say no plan to improve their lives. when you have a know me,

what i what i but let me, he's acting like he is the sunday is rising on the country. the general prosecutors, the president, the parliament, the government, he's acting like he is everything. that's an issue of people and it's movement don't. once they cite, president side says his actions when needed to address economic stagnation and a poor response to the corona virus. his critics, a calling it a coo and cy, he tightened his grip on power on wednesday, announcing his rule by decree and ignore parts of the constitution. but that constitution was a hard forward product at the 2011 revolution that triggered the so called arab spring protest is say, the president who the constitutional law professor is endangering to progress has been made. calling his actions at the trial of democracy. we need to go back to because situation, we need to go back to the flow. we are a democracy and nobody has the right to break the state based

graphics. june as he, his largest political party enact is facing a crisis of its own. over a 100 party officials announced today resignation on saturday, accusing its leadership of failing to counter sides actions. it's quite clear that the political leaders are, they didn't understand or even they didn't relate. the huge psychological shook and the huge impact over the july 25th decision. and the, the, the 113 people resign it yesterday and they were in conflict with the president of another month before july 26th, local and international human rights groups had condemned side pal grad warning of a slide towards authoritarianism. but there are also been demonstrations in support of the president,

ty said has promised to uphold people's rights. but there is still fees here of a return to absolute one man room. alex here brian al jazeera. ah, let's bring in august in tunis, m l as is an independent politician and former secretary of state international corporation in doha, nadine, milady, professor of media and communication and catholic university. and also in june as they are going to finally a lawyer and political activist, a warm welcome to your i'd, let's begin inch eunice with m l m l you are on the show just over a week ago. back then you were actually a politician for enough that you were you've now since resigned. just tell us why. ok there briefly thank you for the invitation. first of all, but there briefly, i would go on to principle. the reason i mentioned in our let is of resignation.

the 1st is internal. we've been trying for a long years to reform the party for a better governance for and to to have a democracy. because democracy is not truly expected in the party for them or not, we were against the monopoly of powers inside them the party and for many political choices. we felt for me personally, i being invest that trained opposition or wanting reform to be the bench congress in 2016. so we have to admit today that we failed in, not changing anything or changing reforming this party. the 2nd is that the choice is taken by another party. political choices, especially we, we admit we were part of those choices because we were inside the party. will,

emily, we assume some of these responsibilities. those choices have led to the scene we saw on july the 25th. and so now we're not though with the present image. the image you see in another is an isolated nada. another that can not really get involved in this movement. this the a ferris's, against the danger of dictate the ship, which is coming very, very quickly into the let's take a look at a couple of those reasons. firstly, have you given up on in the completely and have you destroyed any internal competition, any internal pressure that you could put on president car side by simply being a member of the party, you simply just given up having you no, we have not given up. we have fought for a long time, and even after the july,

the 25th we tried, we did our best and off the leadership, the official leadership of the party to move apart just a little bit so that a new leadership takes its turn in leading the party we asked for a change of radical change in the executive board. however, we found no, no, if you want to respond to, to what we need and what, what the bar to you need. so i think we didn't really gate would have been given up easily. no we, we, we did our best for a long time. sorry. and even after the go i called cool. of course. this is a long time i called who even after the who we did our best to change for the best, but unfortunately nobody listen real good. holly. busy also in tunis when mass resignations like this happened from a ruling party. 2 things can happen either the ruling party becomes weaker or the

ruling party can become stronger because one man consolidates power. what do you think is going to happen? it sits in, i think it does weak the position to say it, but that's internal to another. i mean, i can judge which is happening and i mean they are i hope, i hope they re find a way to, to, to arrange things. but in my mind, i think it does, we can be the, the opposition. but if it weakens the opposition, riyadh. what does that mean on practical terms for the protest movement, for the people who want to come out on the streets, are we going to see more all of that kind of thing now, or we're going to see less of it because there is no effective opposition do you think 1st, good me emphasize on the fact that i spend the 3 quarter of my life opposing can

euro. so when i said tweaking, i mean i'm not defending or it's just for me, it's an objective start for your question. i mean, it's hard to say for no, it's hard to say we're going to see how things really low rate. but one more time, i mean more, we have more, we have movement more. we have division. i mean, that's the way, but i want to do it unique for 20 years because the position was always should i say terribly divided? well let's put that amal, i mean, well as the is the opposition divided now is the position component before. let me,

if you, if you, if you don't mind, i'd like to interact a little bit with you, i guess in tunis with the question of weakening the opposition. i'd like to ask him, does anyone today or just ask myself, you know, does anyone today in the spectrum, in the political spectrum is willing to collaborate with another. nobody's willing to collaborate with another, the position of the know about after 20, 25th of july, and it's fluctuating if you want. nothing is clear. so i think we have tried to change things so that we have this image in front of people and in front of the political leads and political plus that they have changed. another has been of course, is not only another war but, but because today we are talking about and then please, i don't like to focus too much on another another for me it's but it's from the bus

now. but it was not only the responsible of the bad image of that bad scene we had before the 25th of july and which led to the 25th of july. so people today and even the political leads and political blocks they, they say is they say that the latest possible lives, if you want in the leadership of another for what happens in the can do. so can you imagine that such and such a lot won't we will daily. you've been very patient with us. we will bring in just a 2nd, but i would like regular folly just to react. i'm always come in. yeah, absolutely. thank you. first ma'am. i understand, i respect what you said, but the question was does what happen? does the resign the 100 weaken the the position? i said, yes, i am not judging what you are doing and some very civil people that i do appreciate

among those who has resigned mckee and others. ok, i don't share, i don't share their ideology, but i do respect them. and i wasn't judging you saying that what you've done is wrong, go. all right. i just said that sort of the question was, does it? we can. i said for me it was an object. right, well let's, let's bring an already in milady hayes, a professor of media and communication at katha university. you've heard, well, to guess in tunis have said, what do you think the future is? is it a weekend opposition? and a consolidating of power by case lead, who's going to simply act the same way been all he did in the past. thank you for the invite me 1st of all, just to make a quick comment with regard to what i've heard from my colleagues. i mean, certainly the issue is much bigger in my view than another itself. yes,

another has got his own internal problems in terms of going to get moved in and also routing the, the government for the last 10 years or whatever. although it's a direct impact on the government was available. now, the fact that the over a 100 of its members, i resigned 2 days ago, is a real issue. but my opinion is no, all the political party running the government engineers. yeah. doing the democratic, the condition would have find it easy. neither right? to succeed in needing to do i, democracy. i think the honorable lucian forces within the outside the country are humongous. and this is why most of my looking, for example, he was challenged by even the government of a sincere afterwards. and then you have all the success of government for the last

10 years. they found this stuff to implement division that they wanted. the interference of some of the external powers is there was no now external funding, you say, well now people know, it was like like you're justifying. busy cause its actions, are you? oh, certainly, no, i mean, i mean that's it. the i consider the move on the 25th of july. i, who on the constitution often is yeah. the a, b, c of democracy around the world says, no, no, no political liter, whether a prime minister or head of faith should be able to do what i said side has done to the, to the politics. constitutions around the world are sacred and they are ratified, but the people and no one leader should simply in and in

a very simple way, just margin life. i think what he did was totally wrong, and it is a recipe for the faith issue. since the 25th of july high society has been reinforcing his view, 1st of all, to marginalize and rewrite the constitution. and he recently, on the 22nd of all of this month, he said it's very, very clearly that he's going to go back to the constitution of 1956. that has been very, very warning signal to all political parties than anyone interested in the democracy in tennessee. and then secondly, i cite has been kind of consolidating all power in his hands, leaving the way towards a formula of the rule of been id and before him and how people get this is exactly what we had getting the last few decades of some of their rude, let's put that one of the guess. another one to begin with. you 1st, a recipe for

a dictator. nerdy. melody's exact words. do you think that is the case? and if it is, how are you going to fight against that? what is your strategy now that you are not yet part of a why the political party? are you going to do that as an independent? can you? yeah. and let me, 1st of all, remind you, remind myself that this is a political transition. it's a democratic transition, i mean, this experience what happened to me happened elsewhere and all the experience in the we're in the historic, in the history of the human kind of transitions and delusions. we have this kind of revolution and count that of illusion via and been you and this, this is the, the, the essence of the crisis itself, just in, in, into a little bit interacting with the august in doha 2nd. now the solution, i think, and this is if i continue with what i started and your guest that he of also in

unit started, i do understand and i did understand what he said. he is also in the weakening of the opposition. what happened yesterday and what happened the week before is but a beginning of this services, one of the leaders of this affair. but since all of this movement, if you want, or this moving and cool that the 18th of september in a way you're better ism, if you want with the 8th of october. this is when the opposition, again, when it came together before 2011, just stop you there because i do want an answer from you when it comes to strategy is your strategies in then as an independent politician to try and use civil disobedience, civil protests to try and get the site out of power. what's your actual strategy? not the theory. what are you actually going to do? yes. yes, i present what we see. it's 1st of all getting involved involved as much as

possible in any movement, either virtual or real in defending democracy and fighting against any possible return of dictatorship inter ms. yes, i personally, i've been present on facebook. i've been present on the streets since the since we started these movements and i think we have no other solution. but given this is true messages that this is what, what, what mr. i, it's called the popular legitimacy and has come up if, if you did what you did on the 25th of july and on the 22nd of september because of what you call the pope illegitimacy. there are other people also asking you to step down and to respect that illusion of confusion. i'm sorry. so i feel like we need

these messages and the benefits from these we already have the time to do when it comes to our other guess. we are good folly your, you want to say something that is this, is this strategy going to play out well civil disobedience? is there a legal recourse? what's what uh, what other strategies are that for the opposition? first, the 1st of all, i just want to emphasize on something now is to mount, since the group of i say them for me, it's a cool book. i mean, the torch, the low where there is no doubt about that. and since 2 mounds, i mean we, so the most serious demonstration yesterday, which means to mount after this. and we may think we may think that the technician more or less po, release,

et cetera. but i just want to remind you what happened is absolutely, absolutely in a much more, i meant no one ever so that this could be possible. and i just want to remind in, in may, i mean there was a leak about the cook in tunisia. i don't know if we just talked about that, but we are left, i personally literally left about that document top secret, but you could from gosh. and now i'm in, geneva is really a pacific country. i just want to remind you of that for much less than that in the us. in the end of trump term people are most, it's not so much. they took their fire arms and the internet for no, i mean there was not moment of expectation the moment where people are really

digesting recoup. but from now and i think and what we saw yesterday is just the beginning of the arena, furthest against the i said. and that should read because it's really not find them . and i am really, they say, i do believe the junior army natural as it is. i mean, they, we didn't, they would never shoot people on the street during the max of the fact of the matter is, is that case, i said has a huge amount of political support. still he still popular and puff of the country . so there is support for him, i'll guess in june is talking about revolutions and counter and civil disobedience, his way of dislodging him from power. but with, with this level of political support, it's going to take a bit more than protest straight. isn't it?

well, 1st of all, he doesn't have much political support. i mean he do that because it's in electra think the elections by giving us the promises and all of the promises that proven their faith. so i do not agree with the contention that the hard political support, he's got whole power in, you know, and he's big, it don't make into popular like from affecting the public it through a kind of. busy emotional appeals and so forth i think i think be don to go. ringback not disobedience, but civil action as cold by the major political part is now and also also to sucker organizations should continue and should stuff up, in my opinion. it will change the picture. it which it will be the solution. there

is no other solution and blah, blah, that can you see the goal is to do the use of force in any form of changes, even do it in the dock times of been being the little worry i have to be honest is the actual type case i, it has managed to bring the army slightly near politics on the 25th of july when he use the army and i use the word use the army to block the parliament and also to shut down the government. the government itself is a very worrying sign. that means this has never happened in the history. often if you even define doing the banality or how people are good about the constitution often is you're always kept the army you throw from and you political affiliation or political involvement, the army internet does not vote, which is very, very interesting. now i think i saw you worrying according to lawry just very

quickly, north, a very, very good. we have right now. we have run out of time, but i do want to get response from read good while you waving around when it comes to the army, what's, what's going on there? i mean, i, you know, the paper about the, the position of the army and i don't agree with my friends. i mean, i can not accept that of the army get and put itself in the position of a constitutional court. the supreme leader of the army is the president of the republic who is still now. i said, i've got a new post i face, but i would never ever want the army to get involved in a constitutional issue. because when she will start to do that, i mean, we're ready to be willing to stuff to be ruled by the army. now what the,

what i say the army is there because the person of the day when people will be on the street. i mean the army, we were, the army would be not. right. i mean the army almost say ok. this is a political issue. i mean, make your mind between, between or between not between the park in between the human society and well, that's it. ok, well i want to thank all i guess i'm l as is nerdy milady and read good holly and i want to thank you to for watching. you can see the program again anytime by this thing, a web site, i was there a dot com and for further discussion, go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha inside story. and you could also join the conversation on twitter . we are at asia inside story from me and ron khan and the entire team it bye for now. the i

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