TUNIS - (Xinhua) - A Tunisian group of politicians, trade unionists and civil society activists launched today (Sunday) an initiative to support President Kais Saied's path, which he announced on July 25, 2021, under the name "Let the people win."

This initiative comes at a time when events are accelerating in Tunisia amid increasing partisan alignments and political alliances, opposing the legislative elections scheduled for December 17th.

In a statement signed by 25 political, trade union and community figures, a copy of which was received by Xinhua News Agency, those concerned with this initiative described their initiative as a "national, popular, horizontal struggle framework".

Among the signatories to this statement are Zuhair Hamdi, Secretary General of the Popular Current Party, Haikal Belkacem of the Popular Front Movement, former Parliamentarian Mubaraka Brahmi, Mohamed Ali Boughdiri and Mohamed Saad (former general secretaries of the Tunisian General Labor Union), in addition to Ibrahim Bouderbala, dean of lawyers. the previous.

The owners of this initiative emphasized that their initiative "is open to the general Tunisian people, and to all its diverse forces that deeply believe in the path of December 17-July 25, and completely boycott the pre-2010 and pre-2021 system to achieve political, social and economic change."

This initiative includes 15 points, including an emphasis on basic human rights and other public and individual rights and freedoms, the independence of the judiciary, and the dedication of fair and efficient judicial accountability, in addition to their call for justice between individuals, marginalized parties, and vulnerable groups.

They considered that their initiative is "an intense expression of an integrated national project in various fields that aspires to the unity of destiny with the general people."

On the economic level, it stipulated that "a diversified, balanced, fair and integrated economy based on parity and partnership between the public and private sectors and taking care of the social, solidarity, mutual and civil economy as a basis for progress and development."

The initiative stressed the "enlightened Arab-Islamic, African and international civilizational and cultural affiliation with the necessity of turning to all countries and opening up to emerging global horizons on the basis of gradual liberation from dependence, building respect and cooperation, and adopting a policy of non-alignment."

Despite the assertion of the owners of this initiative that their initiative "is not just an electoral tool, but rather a fusion of struggle on the basis of a very important interim mission," observers linked the timing of its launch to the elections that Tunisia is preparing for on December 17, and to the increase of fronts, alliances, and party coalitions opposing President Kais Saied.

Over the past few months, the Tunisian opposition has sought to try to unify its work within the framework of party fronts and coalitions, and this effort has intensified with the approaching legislative elections, which it said it would boycott.

Among the most prominent of these opposition alliances and coalitions, we find the National Salvation Front, which was founded on May 31, headed by Ahmed Najib al-Shabi.