President Kais Saied stressed, as he met Interior Minister Taoufik Charfeddine on Monday, the need to apply the law, while ensuring that rights and freedoms are respected.

“Those who denounced repression and traded insults and accusations, have today become allies,” he was quoted as saying in a Presidency statement, adding “they were allies from the beginning and pretended to be enemies in the media.”

During the meeting, which discussed the general situation in the country, Saied reiterated the need to “dismantle all corruption networks, and prosecute all those who think they can go unpunished.”

The municipal theatre (in reference to the venue of the rally staged by the opposition Sunday) showed “they shared roles in Parliament, in a play whose chapters were tailor-made to each actor who only cares about power and money,” he pointed out.

The National Salvation Front had rallied in the capital on Sunday, though the governor of Tunis had decided to ban the protest, demanding the release of all those arrested in the so-called case of plotting against State security.

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse