Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki welcomed the severing of relations between Algeria and the UAE, and linked the return of democracy to Tunisia to its return to Egypt.
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Algeria announced a few days ago that it was severing diplomatic relations with Abu Dhabi due to the “provocative and hostile actions” taken by the country.
In a speech he addressed via his Facebook page to the first conference of Egyptian opposition forces, Marzouki said: “You know that I am not a friend of the Algerian regime, but I take my hat off to it because it expelled and closed all relations with this evil little state (the Emirates), and this is what all regimes that have the minimum of dignity should do.”
He also accused Abu Dhabi of serving Tel Aviv’s interests in the region, considering it, along with Israel, to be “one of the biggest enemies of the Arab nation,” as he put it.
On the other hand, Marzouki linked the return of democracy to Tunisia to its return to Egypt, saying: “Just as the Egyptian revolution was the twin of the Tunisian revolution, the coup that took place in Tunisia was also the twin of the coup that took place in Egypt.”
He added: “The information I received in 2019 indicated that the Egyptian dialect was heard in the corridors of the Carthage Palace perhaps more than the Tunisian dialect, given that Egyptian intelligence played a major role in overthrowing the democratic system in Tunisia.”
Marzouki considered that “the victory of democracy in Egypt means its victory in Tunisia, and its victory in Tunisia means its victory in Egypt, so our fate is more linked than ever before.”
He called for “gathering all Arab democratic forces to deduce what we should present to our people when these regimes collapse, because if these regimes collapse and there are no clear alternatives, there will be – unfortunately – chaos, and perhaps they will long for the era of dictatorship.”
Marzouki had called on Tunisians to declare “civil disobedience” to restore the democratic system, by organizing demonstrations, sit-ins and refusing to pay taxes.
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