Tunisian judges on Monday called a week-long general strike in Tunisian courts to express their opposition to President Qais Sayed’s decision to pardon about sixty of them.
Last week, Tunisian President Kais Syed, who monopolized power in the country, strengthened his judicial powers by amending the law on the Supreme Judicial Council, according to which he dismissed about sixty judges.
Said accused the 57 dismissed judges of “covering up terrorist cases”, “corruption”, “sexual harassment”, “loyalty to political parties” and “disrupting the course of affairs”, and they will be held accountable, which was confirmed at the ministerial meeting. .
“Today, a strike has started in all the courts of the country and news has come out of the great success of the protest movement,” Mourad Al-Masudi, head of the Young Judges Association, told AFP.
The “Association of Tunisian Judges” and other organizations associated with the judiciary called for a “renewed” week-long strike in all Tunisian courts due to the “serious consequences” of the dismissal decision.
The President of Tunisia wants to change the country’s political system from a changed parliament to a presidential one.
