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The Tunisian judiciary prevented Abdel Latif Al-Makki, head of the “Action and Achievement” Party and opposition politician, from traveling, appearing in the media, and moving outside his city.
The decision came after Al-Makki announced his intention to run in the presidential elections scheduled for next October 6, and as part of a series of judicial procedures that affected other candidates.
The investigating judge’s decision would prevent Al-Makki, who was a prominent leader in the Islamic Ennahda movement before his resignation, from moving forward with his official candidacy.
The judiciary is investigating Al-Makki into the circumstances of the death of a former state official who was hospitalized in a public health institution when Al-Makki was Minister of Health between 2011 and 2014. The official’s death is suspected due to negligence in the health institution, an accusation that Al-Makki strongly denies, stressing that the case is fabricated and there is no evidence. On killing.
The Tunisian opposition, a number of whose figures are in prison on charges of conspiring against state security and corruption, accuses the political authority of exerting pressure on the judiciary to track down the competitors of current President Kais Saied in the elections.
Riyad Al-Shuaibi, an opposition politician, told the German News Agency: “The conditions for the elections are not met. The political climate is negative and dominated by arrests and arrests. There are election candidates in prisons today, and there is caution and fears, but there is no positive climate.”
Earlier, the judicial authorities placed Lotfi Al-Marahi, head of the “Popular Republican Union,” in prison for investigation into financial corruption cases after announcing his candidacy for the presidential elections, and Abir Moussi, head of the “Free Destourian Party,” has been in prison since last October, for investigation into… Various issues.
Saied, who overthrew Parliament in 2021 under the pretext of combating corruption and chaos before issuing a new constitution that greatly enhanced his powers, has not officially announced his candidacy for the elections, but it is widely believed that he will advance his candidacy later.
Saied says he wants to correct the course of the 2011 revolution that ended the authoritarian rule of the late President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, while the opposition accuses him of undermining the foundations of democracy.
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