Tunisia union refuse to participate in national dialogue
The national dialogue consultations were launched in Tunisia, with the participation of a number of parties and public figures, but the Tunisian General Labor Union (Central Trade Union) decided to boycott these consultations in their current form. And that was a day after its Secretary-General Noureddine Taboubi met with the President of the Republic, Kais Saied.
The national dialogue, called for by Saied, seeks to set a collective roadmap that will help the country overcome the current crisis and pave the way for the establishment of a new republic on the basis of a referendum on the constitution on July 25 and general legislative elections on December 17 that will lead to a parliament on basis of a new electoral system.
After his meeting with Saeed, on Sunday, Taboubi announced that the President of the Republic informed him of the progress of matters within the framework of the decisions he announced regarding the national dialogue. Saied also met with the head of the Employers’ Organization, Samir Mejoul, and the president of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights, Jamal Muslim. He also met with a number of leaders of the anti-Brotherhood parties, including Obeid Al-Breiki, Secretary-General of the Tunisian Progress Movement.
And the statement of the Labor Union announced, on Monday, that its administrative body headed by Taboubi decided unanimously not to participate in the national dialogue called for by President Kais Saied in its current form, “which did not come from consultation or prior agreement, and does not respond to the expectations of the national forces that aspire to build a national path that emerges from The country is out of its crisis,” according to the statement.
