Tunisian President Kais Said announced that he would dissolve the municipal councils that were elected in 2018 and amend the law to elect their members. Said said in a video clip released by the President of Tunisia at dawn on Thursday: “The two projects will be considered bound for revision the law on the election of municipal councils, and then the law on the election of members of national councils from regions and regions to Another aspect of the text concerns the dissolution of all municipal councils and their replacement by special representatives. “We will continue to march together and we will accept nothing but victory as an alternative,” Said added as he chaired the ministerial council.
And in May 2018, municipal elections were organized, the first in the country since the 2011 revolution, and the Independent Supreme Electoral Authority announced at the time that the independent lists running in the elections had won 2,373 seats, followed by the An-Nahda party with 2,139 seats, then the “Nidaa Towns” for 1600 seats.
However, as a result of this, and also because of political conflicts, the councils entered into heated disputes over the political affiliation of their members, ending with the dissolution of a number of them and the holding of new elections.
Said aims to complete his political project based on a strengthened presidential system and end the parliamentary system established after the 2011 revolution that toppled the regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and put the country on the path to democratic transition. he was the only one in the region.
In July 2022, following a popular referendum, a new constitution was approved that guarantees limited powers to parliament in exchange for granting the president most executive powers, including appointing the government and its prime minister. At the beginning of this year, parliamentary elections were held, in which about 90% of voters refused to participate.
Said again attacked his opponents in the video clip, criticizing the demonstrations organized by the parties and fronts opposing him, and said: “Today they are freely demonstrating and claiming that there is tyranny, although they are demonstrating under the protection of security.” He continued, “They want to play the victim.”
