{"id":41910,"date":"2022-01-04T22:16:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T22:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/?p=41910"},"modified":"2022-01-04T22:35:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T22:35:05","slug":"bad-times-for-the-tartour-of-tunis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/en\/bad-times-for-the-tartour-of-tunis\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad times for the Tartour of Tunis"},"content":{"rendered":"

On December 23, Tunisia’s former interim president, Moncef Marzouki, was sentenced to 4 years in prison by the Tunisian courts. It must be said that the “word” president, even interim president, does not suit this man,<\/em><\/strong> who will have left to posterity only his colorful and laughable nickname: the Tartour (puppet) of Tunis. Mocked and ridiculed<\/a> by his own constituents, he was outvoted in the first round of the 2019 presidential election by garnering a laughable 3% of the vote<\/a>. Recall that the current Tunisian president, Kais Sa\u00efed, was elected in the second round of the same election with nearly 73% of the vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, a poll dated August 17, 2021 places Kais Sa\u00efed very much in the lead in voting intentions<\/a> with a historic score of 91.1% while the Tartour only manages to glean an anorexic 1.2% ! This poll is all the more interesting as it was published about three weeks after the firm measures taken by the Tunisian president. Indeed, the latter had taken the decision<\/a>, on July 25, 2021, to suspend the parliament and to dismiss the head of government.<\/p>\n

This decision, so decried by Tartour and its Western or Islamist supporters, was acclaimed by the Tunisian street so that the satisfaction rate of the Tunisian president’s performance rose from 38% (June 2021) to 82% (August 2021) .<\/p>\n

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Tunisian street satisfaction rate with regard to the performance of President Kais Sa\u00efed.<\/p>\n

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It is since this courageous decision taken by the Tunisian president that the Tartour, without any popular base, began its attacks against the Tunisian head of state, calling for his dismissal and qualifying him as a “putschist” and “dictator”<\/a> . In October 2021, during an interview with France 24<\/a>, he said he was “proud to have participated in the postponement of the Francophonie summit scheduled for November in Djerba”.<\/p>\n

All these attacks on foreign media have resulted in Tartour being accused of making comments<\/a> “against state security and harming Tunisia’s interests abroad”.<\/p>\n

For a very long time close to the Islamist party Ennahda and its leader Rached Ghannouchi – who allowed him to take the presidency<\/a> – he is considered a “pawn of Qatar and Turkey”<\/a> and a “support for the Muslim Brotherhood movement”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2016, in the middle of an interview on the Islamist channel Al Hiwar<\/a>, he ostensibly showed his support for the Muslim Brotherhood by making the Rabaa sign (four fingers raised and thumb folded, a rallying sign of the brotherhood).<\/p>\n

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On the Islamist channel Al Hiwar: Moncef Mazouki makes the sign of Rabaa (February 2, 2016)<\/p>\n

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Considered close to the Muslim Brotherhood, the Al Hiwar channel was funded by Qatar according to leaked statements<\/a> from Sheikh Hamed Ben Khalifa himself.<\/p>\n

It is moreover this “brotherist” allegiance that justifies its omnipresence on the sets of the Qatari channel Al Jazeera, which played a disastrous role<\/a> during the ill-named Arab “spring”.<\/p>\n

In an interview with this channel dated October 15, 2021 (see video below), the Tartour of Tunis declared “not to recognize the legality of this man” (ie Kais Sa\u00efed) and qualified the presidential decisions taken in July 2021 as ” Rebellion “. He also admitted having had discussions “abroad” asking them not to “support this putschist”.<\/p>\n