AFP - The Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi on Monday urged members reunited for the first time since the fall of Ben Ali, to authorize the Interim President to rule by decree-law, bypassing parliament dominated by the former ruling party power.
The battle against the former all-powerful Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD) had taken the first step Sunday with the announcement by the Ministry of Interior of the "suspension" of the party before a "dissolution" next.
MPs gathered in front of the palace of Bardo in Tunis headquarters of the Parliament, the prime minister has urged politicians to preserve the achievements of the popular revolution that led to the downfall of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on January 14.
A bill to that effect "will enable the Interim President (Fouad Mebazaa) to adopt ordinances pursuant to Article 28 of the Constitution," said the Prime Minister.
"Time is precious.These decree-laws, Tunisia really need to overcome the dangers "threatening the gains of the revolution, insisted Mohammed Ghannouchi.
"There are people who want to return to Tunisia in back, but we must honor our martyrs, who fought for freedom," he said, calling the 125 members present (out of 214 elected members) to adopt the text, expected to rise on Wednesday before the House of Councillors (Senate).
Members should decide in the day on this "bill empowering the president to take interim decree law", according to the unified agenda of the session.
Specifically, the untouchable and all-powerful party under President Ben Ali, who claimed to have 2 million members in a country of 10 million people, has yet no right to organize meetings or rallies, and all its premises are closed.
But many of its cadres are still present in the government and police. The opposition fears that the RCD, the only party that benefited from facilities around the country, only takes all the elections scheduled in six months.A delay also challenged as being too short by many political groups banned under Ben Ali.
This offensive against the RCD operates in a time of great tension in various regions of the country (north, south and center), while the government has to ease the curfew in force since January 12 after a clean sweep at the head of the police.
The recent appointment of 24 new provincial governors are struggling to pass. In several areas, demonstrators demanded their departure just days after taking office because of "RCDisme.
The governor of Gafsa (West Central) has had to leave Sunday its offices under military protection.
Further north, the city of El Kef was a weekend of rioting that people attribute to ochestrées provocations by the RCD. Two people were killed Saturday by a police commissioner, the police building was set on fire twice, and groups of looters have caused panic in the city.
