The Tunisian opposition based outside the country celebrated this Sunday that thousands of citizens have mobilized in different cities of Tunisia against the Executive led by President Kais Saied, coinciding with the fifth anniversary of the dissolution of Parliament, a date that also marks the proclamation of the Tunisian republic.
"The Tunisian opposition abroad emphasizes the need to protect public and private institutions and facilities, as well as to ensure prompt justice through an independent judiciary to hold accountable all those who have committed crimes against the Tunisian people," indicated a statement published by activist and blogger Thamer Bedida.
In this line, the opponents have valued that on the eve hundreds of people demonstrated in the capital to demand Saied's resignation and "demanding that power be returned to the people and that he be held accountable" for alleged corruption crimes, in addition to "undermining the independence of the judiciary and state institutions."
"It was a magnificent demonstration that disrupts any attempt at distortion, contempt, or sowing of doubts by the henchmen of the coup regime," the exiled opponents have emphasized, adding that this makes the image of Saied's government "collapse" as enjoying "popularity."
The opposition abroad has called to take advantage of the momentum of the protests to open a "new stage" that allows breaking the "international isolation, eradicating poverty and tyranny," as well as "establishing an authentic democracy" in the North African country.
The bulk of this opposition, articulated mainly around the National Salvation Front (FSN), has been denouncing Saied's decisions for years and demands his exit from power, especially after the wave of arrests of opponents, activists, and journalists under accusations of corruption or terrorism.
Tunisia, seen for years as one of the few references of democratic transition after the 'Arab Spring', has experienced in the last five years a deterioration of rights and freedoms attributed to the president. His detractors increasingly compare his leadership to that of Zine el Abidine ben Ali, who ruled the country from 1987 to 2011.