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news, news, news. news o 2 needs, his political crisis is deepening. the president has dissolved, the parliament accusing the suspended members of attempting a qu, but they say it's high, say it, who's grabbing how're illegally. so where does tunisia go from here? this is inside story. ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm hello jim, jim. it's been nearly 8 months since tunisia. president sack the prime minister, suspended parliament and granted himself broad executive powers. ty,

its supporters, welcomed the moves is necessary to root out corruption. but his critics accused him of a coup. now sigh, it says he's the target of an attempted coup. he dissolved parliament after members defied him by voting online to repeal the decrees he used to assume near total power. tunisia constitution says an election must be held within 3 months. but i am a former constitutional law professor has rejected this impeach, including the speaker and head of the largest political party and nava had been summoned to be questioned by teenagers, anti terrorism police. well, that can work with allie shabbat to see the people in tennessee, a holding on to the constitution. we reject the president's decision to dissolve the that is still council. this is to continuation of these decisions taken on july the 25th, which rejected or considered as a q. this is a continuation of the cube now. what elisia walkman, a reports from tunis,

president science says there'll be no fresh elections any time soon. this despite him dissolving parliament and the constitution saying he's just 90 days to hold new legislative elections. this follows from parliament holding an online plenary session on wednesday. it's the 1st time that they've met together. since last july, brent president side sat government and froze parliament, bringing in a period of what he called will exceptional measures necessary to save the country from imminent danger. parliament voted to end this period of exceptional measures and signed responded by dissolving parliament sides called it occurred to talk a constitutional treaty talbot, a failed coo since then. and peace had been summoned for questioning at finishes terrorist police station. and this includes the speaker of house, apollo, russia, grenay, she who leads the largest party in parliament,

parliament as yet no arrests or charges have been made and parliament is waiting for the result. so today's question to decide on when the hold another plenary session, they want to ensure that enough parliamentarians to present to have a quorum enough to pass votes on any motions, proposed eliza feldman for inside story will go to our guests in a moment. but 1st, let's take a closer look at the political crisis. the democratic transition in tunisia since the 2011 revolution has been tumultuous and matters came to a head last year. in july 2021 presence, i had sacked the prime minister and froze the parliament. his opponents accused him of staging a qu, but sigh, it has argued he acted legally to rescue the country. during protests against him, sired announced in september that he'd rule by decree. this allowed him to appoint cabinet members, set policy and put aside parts of the constitution. in january this year,

he initiated an online consultation to draft a new constitution, but he hasn't involved any major political or civil society groups. all right, let's go ahead and bring in our guess in tunis. we have journalists, robert, by the way, in nicosia, in cyprus months of hud, lot associate professor in the department of international relations at cyprus, international university, and also into his political commentator. should he for a callback, welcome to you all and thanks for joining us today. busy on inside story, robert, let me start with you today. just how fragile is democracy in tunisia right now. i think we the latest. this is a decision taken. baby, a judy says democracy is a really shake. and i think this is a big threat to our democracy that we've built a decade ago today. people i frustrated because they are waiting for

a wheel measures economic coming farms. i think i think jimmy's yesterday needs more economic plans and economic measures than political decisions like dissolving the parliament should if um, let me ask you a just how big a crisis is this right now? what's going on? and where does tunisia go from here? i this is a. ready we are a very in problems here with a and the, our ability to overrule b,

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a months of ever since july of 2021. when president saeed suspended parliament sack the prime minister, president sy, it has been saying that those actions and the subsequent actions that he's taken are constitutional, that he has granted the power to take these actions from your vantage point. are the actions that he has taken, including the last one, dissolving parliament, are those actions actually constitutional? you see that he's a told me that he's a tradition in tunisia of speaking about constitutional cool. and but it could changes and liberalization. and to some extent. ready the setbacks from something liberal to something authoritarian. so what happened to some extent

or is very often fail it from different perspectives from the liberal procedure under strictly caution and his perspective. it is something good on to take to constitution norms and artistic to liberal thinking. but to what extent is this on time democratic or is it a cool? is it depends because this is a debate. those will support the president and behind the president. those who are also not very critical, they think that the revolution between quotation mark justin that if just marry what ocean was betrayed and what to do, the way the president operated. it's problematic that he's no doubt and how to judge it or assess it from different perspective from the liberal perspective is very hard to defend it. somebody evolution best. and we want to say perspective is also a big question mark. because what are the masses,

even if there are people supporting him now or so this here is of democratization. many of them thought that one has to abandon these paradigm about the musician to democracy. they agree on the fact that he's normally barren or thought italian auto catholic system. but from there we have to go white think now terms we are getting somewhere. so after saying that that is a transition and it has some criteria. some of them are antique and some theoretical and they make sense. here we are now what is happening since, since 2000 and then for the gay side and those who are supporting him, that was a mess. so the, by the length of what is called this parliament, that democracy is something we want to go back to that and good morbid as in good masses. internal of her. what is called the citizens against the go and the church keep on it from the outside. the easy it said for from the beginning, you labeling it defining each categorizing it as

a go. but all the other had some scholars and song thinkers believe that the leaders of the country who and cult of democracy are the following, which is a relatively that such as it sits phasing mont, saint, dan, probably met montana. let me, let me say, let me, let me, let me, let me pick up on, on some of the point that you're making in, in, in a later question. because i want to ask rob bright, now, you heard months of their talk about the fact that there has been a lot of disagreements since last july about whether, whether the actions of presence i had then were a cool or not. so you had that happen. you have the allegations since then that that was a qu, that's book from his opponent. now you have for his, i it who's saying that he is the target of, of an attempted coup. what does the public think? does the public think that that president's i am engaged in a qu? does the public think that now there is an attempt of a coup against president sayed? what is their mindset on this? i think the up public opinion is divided today and g,

j between the people who are with the president and describing is the actions and in action. if here are we will say, we'll is say the country and the other hand, we have people who are against him and they are describing he actions as if you want my opinion. i think he's manipulating the law today. for example, when he use the article 72 of the constitution on wednesday, it's by a ducks about ducks all because you can't use this article where, where like, you took the exception of measures in july, according to the article 80. for example, if you see this article 80, you can understand that he can't do so the parliament and the parliament messed and maintain in session till the next election. so it's got,

it looks you can use both articles, $80.72 at the same time while you wait. he declared already a state of emergency. so i think lisa paradox is really i, we are witnessing really despite of the key in the gymnasium suite who are today divided more than ever between the lock with him and against the president bus. but mostly the, both political parties are against him. and he's really facing a big opposition today should have. how specifically does president sa, you'd want to re make the political system in tunisia? is it just that he wants a presidential system? does he want to grab more power? does he want to lessen the power of parliament and just expand executive powers? what is his vision going forward? i

a, a, a, a, a, a, a say, whether the position or the day more of a or

a but a year. it was a war. and to go a lot more than 80 percent of the me or the consultation with a b b a a while we are seeing leave

a be world in. so a dish. well what we wrong by only one person with worlds a month. um, i remember when parliament was suspended in july of 2021 speaking to many tunisians . and the consensus was that presents i had with you know, his, that his actions were very popular among the public is because they were tired of the political infighting of the squabbling. and they wanted to see things get done . i want to ask you how much support president side has now among the public? because here we are, almost a year later,

the economy is worse off. things haven't generally improved and there is still political stasis in the country. i think the program to some extent to us of direct and indirect your question is it is one. ready is a tradition of, within the particular leads to go after each other who is democrat, who is authority times autocrat, who is part of the day volition was against that he will lucian. and there is a block and lead. busy title, more of the system and i don't know to what extent this it gets. it matches behind in one side or another and it looks like it the, it, it is very often more or less open to what is happening in the seats. but at the same time is manipulating and i would say what about those who think in terms of progressive or even radical, the call is also not from outside,

but both within the society and outside the society. but the economic edits, to what extent it is a fiasco today because different types of a leads even the economic it, it is also unhappy and probably has grievances, but nevertheless, to think in terms of binary and dichotomy. this is this democracy, this or how can i see is authoritarian, this liberal, but the dynamics within the donation regime and tuition system as a whole in connection with the region on actor asian forces. interest is very complicated because that is the truth. i remembered value it one of the, among others x, the minister of the 1st president of the region, been honda himself, laker? the last, the, before the last president went running for presidential system and they were not at ease with this is a system since 2014 across addition. so me, bessy doesn't shelly parliamentarian,

an expert in democratization are telling us you are going to walk straight into something hybrid which is this and that at the same time. nevertheless, it, the other procedure levered. i admit that it's very hard to defend on the concrete empirical grounds. what is happening. but here we are to, to say something about this one has to move to the level of pure politics, which is, is it opportunity to do this is in the way to do it, even if you ought to be defending what you think 10 years left where based on earth, reactionary, conservative carter, revolutionary anti democratic, i have to say, even maraduke, as president said, the connection or the networking right between, between the islamist and the need that owners at that time was controversially. so

where did they say her policy or this coalition or is alice is started going in the wrong direction. now what, what is happening is really probably magic and how to read it. but is it the constitutional a crisis easy to political crisis? it is on so kind of her a combination of all these sir, right? monta, monta, i'm so i'm so sorry. i don't mean to interrupt you, but we are starting to run out of time. probably let me ask you from your vantage point. what are the consequences for these m p 's who've been summoned and depending on how this plays out a, do you think that we might see some of these m p 's prosecuted? oh yes, we live here in brazil, the prosecutor persecuted, and then this is this was the announcement announcement by the president few days ago in. fortunately this image is not good far as i told you for our democracy. and this is the real threatening to do is yeah,

shaking democracy. unfortunately we are seeing that the, the, the low is manipulated by the president. and i think as a journalist, i think we have to be visual because not only the democracy is threatened, but also freedom of press and freedom of expression is that sort of march than ever today? sure. if this parliament session that happened online, where there was more than half the parliament members present, what kind of impact does that have on presidency? it's grip on power because essentially they, they tried to overturn what president psy you'd had done when it came to suspending parliament. does this show or does this indicate that the opposition, even though they've been really fractured in the past, perhaps are uniting more and feeling more confident to really forcefully oppose

presidents i it, does it weaken his grip on power at all? i think so far a, a, a, a, a, a few months ago, a due date for decision

a day or 2 to you. so i think maybe a answered if just very quickly, if i could follow up with you, do you think that there's any hope right? now that there could be a dialogue between the president and parliament,

a, b, a, b, a, b, a, b, r b for i. i'm sorry to interrupt you. we just have about a minute left. and i just want to ask rob, quickly, at a time in tunisia when the economy is in such bad shape, when many say there's headed toward disaster, there's a recession. food prices have driven up massively. how hard is it for to nissan citizens? right now?

it's really hard. the economic crisis already started in 2020 we, we dealt crisis and the cost is interest in defense value. today with the we're in ukraine. that's why, as i told you, people are frustrated and just keep going to because 8 months after he took the measure in july 2021, people waited for economic plans, economic decisions because of the farms. but really nothing is done. so i think misers in sci fi, economic aggress is today. all right, well, we have run out of time to we're gonna have to leave it there today. thanks so much . all of our guess probably about a week once of about and should have called me and thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website or dot com. and further discussion go or facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha inside story. you can also join the conversation on twitter handle

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