Elections As Guarantee

After the Arab Spring and coming to power of a democratically elected President in the name of Kais Saied, many were of the opinion that a new political era is unfolding in the country. But months after he took over, many ugly faces started showing their faces by impeding his government activities. Thus, political crisis took centre stage prompting President Saied to invoke the constitution by dismissing successive Prime Ministers and a decree to freeze the Parliament for a period of 30 days, saying he would govern alongside a new premier. A decision some of his opponents like the moderate Islamist Ennadha labeled a coup and decided to take to the streets without any fundamental reason. But their actions were short-lived because hours after Saied's announcement, huge crowds gathered in his support in Tunis and other cities, cheering, dancing and ululating while the military blocked off the Parliament and state television station.
The show of support to President Saied did not go down well as Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi, the head of Ennadha party that has played a role in successive coalition governments, did not only decry the move as an assault on democracy, but went to Parliament with the intention of calling a session in defiance of Saied, but the army stationed outside the building stopped him from entering the Parliament building. Faced with no option, the house speaker again called on Tunisians to come onto the streets, as they had done on the day of the revolution in 2011, to oppose the move. Dozens of Ennadha supporters faced off against Saied supporters near the Parliament building, exchanging insults as the p...