The Republican Party (Al-Joumhouri) calls on the President of the Republic to halt legal proceedings and political pressure, release prisoners then launch an inclusive national dialogue involving political and social forces and civil society organisations, spokesperson Wissem Sghaier said on Thursday.
An inclusive national dialogue is required, he said, to produce "a salvation plan" that would help steer the country out of the economic and social crisis far away from "unilateral decisions."
Sghaier was speaking at a press conference organised on the one hundred days of the arrest of Secretary General Issam Chebbi.
"The arrests of politicians isolated Tunisia and exacerbated its socio-economic crisis," he added.
Issam Chebbi and other political activists were jailed in the so-called "Conspiracy against the State" case over their political views which are opposed to the Head of State's, the spokesperson said.
Interim SG Abdellatif Hermassi said the "unilaterality of decisions," "power monopoly" as well as "the repression of opponents" will only aggravate economic and social conditions.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse