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there are fewer regulations who own a tiger than their our own a dog. how can this be happening? your weekly take on us politics and, and that's the bottom line is yes, political crisis is deepening, 1000 rallied against the president rule. could the nation return to terrorism and all the president supporters is running out of patience that isn't touched? ah, ah hello, welcome to the program i am ron kon, 10 years ago mass protest pushed in is years long time leader is in l. aberdeen. been alley from power. that was the start of what would become the arab spring. but now some of worried that the country could return to a force. harriet ism thousands rallied in the capital tunis for

a 2nd time since the president seized executive power in july. i said suck the prime minister in suspended parliament, saying it was needed to fix jesus political and economic problems. and he since consolidated his power, further deciding to rule by decreed. now, a small number of his supporters of her held a rival protest will bring in a guest in just a moment. but 1st, this report by lexi o'brien under a heavy police presence, crowd gathered on the tune is in capitals main boulevard. to protest against the president, the anger has been growing since july, when kai 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 home, you know what i, what i, what he's acting like, he is the son that 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 to people and it's movement. don't once they cite, president side says his actions were needed to address economic stagnation and a poor response to the corona virus. his critics are 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 of the 2011 revolution that triggered the so called arab spring. protest is say, the president who the constitutional law professor is endangering the progress has been made. calling his actions at the trial of democracy. we need to go back to the constitution. we need to go back to the flow. we are a democracy and nobody has the right to break the 60 days graphics. in june, as he, his largest political party enact is facing a crisis of its own. more than a 100 party officials announced

a resignation on saturday, accusing its leadership of failing to counter size actions. it's quite clear that the political leaders are, they didn't understand or even they didn't assimilate. 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. i said has promised to uphold people friday. but there is still see is yes of a return to absolute one man room. alex here brian al jazeera the

let's bring in august in tunis. i'm l as an independent politician and former secretary of state international corporation and newer dean, 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 like to begin in tunis 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 principal reasons mentioned in our letters of resignation. the 1st internal we've been trying for 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 the party. and for many political choices, we felt for me personally, i being invest that trained opposition or wanting reform to be that then 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 willy nilly . 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 but can not really get involved in this movement. this a ferris's against the, the danger of dictatorship, which is coming very, very quickly. intern is yes. 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 pull 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 a part 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 party needs. so i think we didn't really and 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 us. it's a long time i called qu, even after the cool we did our best to change for the best, but unfortunately anybody listen real good holly. busy also in tunis when mass reservations, 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 i should have 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, are you 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 another unit. so when i said to tweak in the,

i mean i'm not defending or it's just for me, it's an objective. start for a 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 a training for 20 years because the position was always should i say terribly divided? well let's put that amal, i mean, as 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 inject a little bit with the, 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 after 20, 25th of july, and 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 life that they have changed. another has being of course, is not only a novel 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 not responsible of the bad image that's been seen we had

before the 25th of july and which led to the 25th of july. so people today and even the political elite and political last they, they say they say that the latest possible lives, if you, once in the leadership of another for what happens in the can do. so can you imagine that such and such a lot? what are we, what are they very patient with us. we will bring in just a 2nd, but i would like regular folly just to react to. i'm always come in. yeah, absolutely. thank you. first man, i understand i respect what you said, but the question was, does what happen? does the resign the 100 weaken the position? i said, yes, i'm 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 for the question was, does it? we can. i said for me, it was an object. well, let's, let's bring in already. and milady have the professor of media and communication at katha university. you've heard, well to guess in tunis, i've said, what do you think the future is? is it a weekend opposition? and a consolidating of power by case said, 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 help from within and also the, the government for the last 10 years or whatever. although it's

a direct impact on the government was very little. now, the fact that the over a 100 numbers i resigned 2 days ago is a real issue. but my opinion is no other political party running. the government engine is doing the democratic, the condition would have find it easy, an easier to succeed in needing to do proper democracy. i think the honorable lucian forces within an outside the country are humongous. and this is why most of my lucas, for example, he was challenged by even the government of a sincere afterwards. and then you have all of 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 ours is there was no,

no external funding. you say, well now people know, it was like like you're justifying. busy sites actions or you? oh, certainly, no, i mean, i mean, definitely 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 leader, whether a prime minister or head of state should be able to do what i said by side has done to the, to the politics constitution is out on the world are sacred and i, they are ratified by the people and no one lead to should simply in and in a very simple way. just margin life. i think what you 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. first of all, to marginalize and rewrite the constitution. and he recently, on the 22nd of 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 pocket than anyone, emphasis in the democracy and soon as yet. and then faculty site has been kind of consolidating all power in his hand, leading the way towards a formula of the rule of been id and before him and how big this is exactly what we had during the last few decades of the room. 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? yes. 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's happening to me as your happened elsewhere and all the experience in the we're in the historic, in the history of the human kind of transitions, andrew solutions. we have this kind of revolution and counter revolution via and been you and this, this is the, the, the essence of the crisis itself, just in, in 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 yard, also in tune a 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 service is one of the leaders of this services or 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 a look tobar. this is when the opposition gets bananas 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 you 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. first 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 intern is 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 had 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 village timothy. there are other people also asking you to step down and to respect that illusion fusion, i'm sorry. so i feel like we need these messages and the benefits from these. we already have time to do when it comes to our other guess. we had 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 there for the opposition? first, the 1st of all, i just want to emphasize on something now is to mount, since the group of her i said them for me, it's a cool book. i mean, to watch 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 the school. and we may think, we may think that tunisia and more or less a bo release it sits. but i just want to remind you what happened is absolutely, absolutely any magic. i mean, 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 coup, indonesia. i don't know if we're just talking about that, but we are left. i personally literally left about the documents, a top secret that you get from us. and now i'm in geneva, it's really a pacific country. i just want to remind you of that for much less than that in the us. in the and trump term. people are most, it's not so much. they took the fire arms and the internet for no, i mean there was not moment of expectation the moment where people are really digesting the group. but from now and i think and what we saw yesterday is just the beginning of the arena, protest against the i said,

and the read because it's really not like them. and i am really, they say, i do believe that the junior is in army natural as it is. i mean, they will, they will never shoot people on the street. nobody in the max of the fact of the matter is, is that case, i said has a huge amount of political support. still, he's still popular and part of the country. so there is support for him, i'll guess in june. so talking about revolutions and counter and civil disobedience is waived, 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 did it in electra think the elections

a by giving lots of promises and all of those promises that proven their faith. so i do not agree with the contention that the hard political support. he's got whole power in the now and he's big don't get into a populated like from attracting the public it through a kind of. busy emotional appeals and so forth. i think, i think be don, that means to go not disobedience, but civil action as cold by the major political part is now and also also with the 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 i'm glad that you see the result to to the use of force in any form of changes, even during the dock times of been adding be a little more. i have to be honest,

is the actual tax that 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 warning sign. that means this has never happened in the history. often if you even define the during the, the, been, i, me or happy about the constitution often is you're always kept the army in utero from any political affiliation or political involvement. the army internet does not vote, which is very, very interesting. now i think i was lee, according to just very, very quickly north, a very, very quickly we have right now we have run out of time, but do you 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 position of the army and i don't agree with my friends. i mean, i didn't accept that at the army. get and put itself in the position of a constitutional court, the supreme leader of the army, if the president of the republic who is still now. i said, i've got a new post, i said, 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 will be willing to start 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 go between between a bit, you know, 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 nadine milady and red. good holly and i want to thank you to for watching. you can see the program again any time. but this thing a website out 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 as a inside story from me and ron kon and the entire team it bye for now. the stories that need to be tow. find away the window into another life. these are my babies. my students where i go, where i see them,

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