Ennahda supporters to pressure government

Supporters of the Tunisia's ruling Islamist movement, Ennahda,  have launched a campaign to pressure the government to achieve the goals of the revolution and put the other parties that run the country, the presidency and the leadership of the Constituent Assembly to task. The "Youth of Ennahda" signed a statement in which they announced the launch of "Ikbis" (the pressure campaign), saying it was not organised by any political structure or organisation. T "We are a group of Tunisian people; we are sons of the revolution and sons of the Ennahda movement. No party or organisation directs us. We are in love with our homeland and we desire to push it towards reform and democratic transition and to achieve transitional justice," said the statement. The statement added: "We agree on some options that we consider the most appropriate solution to solve the confidence crisis in Tunisia because of the dispairty between the vision of the general public and the three presidencies on the objectives of the revolution." The campaign calls on the country's leadership to "accelerate the reform process, activate the demands of the revolution and liberate the state institutions from the grip of the corrupt, while maintaining the revolutionary momentum and prevent any assault on the dignity of this amazing revolution that gave birth to the whole Arab Spring". The statement also raised a number of urgent and immediate demands "that should be achieved so that the revolution of the people succeeds". The most prominent of these demands was the enactment of a law that prevented those who were involved in the former regime from any political work for a period not less than 10 years, and to dissolve all offshoots of the Rally Party and to try all the symbols of corruption, officials and businessmen, along with confiscating their property and money. The statement also called on the government to take revolutionary and immediate decisions to purge the judiciary, the security and media and other corrupt sectors. It demanded isolating every figure of the former regime that worked in the current government and important state institutions and to criminalise everyone who "glorified the Ben Ali regime and betrayed the revolution, or insult its wounded or the families of martyrs". The campaign also stressed the need to honour the families of those killed and wounded since the independence of the country and to establish a judicial joint committee between civilian and military officials in order to review the crimes of the former regime and those involved in financial and administrative corruption. The campaign, which has been promoted in many Tunisian media platforms, comes at a time when many cities protest against the "wrong policies of the ruling coalition" and " the policies of marginalisation and impoverishment suffered by internal areas in Tunisia”. Sidi Bouzid, the town seen as the cradle of the Tunisian revolution after a fruit vendore set himself on fire in protest, eventually leading to nationwide demonstrations, has been wracked with rallies against the government and clashes with the police forces.