Tunisia: Judges, lawyers protest President Saied dissolution of Judicial Council in Tunis

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Judges and residents gathered outside the central court in Tunis on Thursday to decry President Kais Saied’s move to dissolve the Supreme Judicial Council (CSM).

During a televised speech on Sunday, President Saied announced abolishing the Supreme Judicial Council but clarified that there was no intention of interfering in the judiciary. Magistrates, judges, and activists gathered to show their discontent regarding a ‘power grab’ and unconstitutional.
“The process of dissolving the Council is an illegal process aimed at returning the country to more than 30 years to restore the executive authority so that it can control the wake. We consider it a betrayal of the course of the revolution and the failure of the path of the Tunisian revolution,” said Maher Handoub, a lawyer present at the rally.

President Saied has been criticised for suspending the Parliament last July, dismissing the prime minister and assuming all executive powers from then on.

SOT, Anas Al-Hamaydi, President of the Tunisian Judges Association (Arabic): “We don’t get fooled by these tricks and the statements and we know very well the direction towards which the President of the Republic is heading through an explicit announcement from the headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior on the night between February 5 and 6, [hereby stating] that the Supreme Judicial Council has become a thing of the past and confirmed this by closing the Supreme Judicial Council by a unilateral decision without any participation of judges or institutions. Today, we are making sure that the president, with this step, wants to extend his hand over the judiciary, and we categorically reject such abuses.”

SOT, Maher Handoub, Lawyer at the commentary (Arabic): “The process of dissolving the Council is an illegal process aimed at returning the country to more than 30 years ago to restore the executive authority so that it can control the wake. We consider it a betrayal of the course of the revolution and the failure of the path of the Tunisian revolution.”

SOT, Muhammad Ramdani, Judge (Arabic): “This stand is in response to the Tunisian Association of Judges, in the context of addressing the decisions taken on February 6 to dissolve the Supreme Judicial Council.”

SOT, Muhammad Ramdani, Judge (Arabic): “We reject this decision and call on the president to retract this decision.”

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