Lakhdar confirms PF's inability

The Secretary-General of the National Democratic Union Party, Ziad Lakhdar said that talking about the municipal elections is a talk in politics in terms of assessing the general political situation in the country and stabilizing the balance of power of the various political parties.

"There is a strong return of anti-democratic forces," he said in interview with Arabs Today. Lakhdar stressed that the Popular Front (PF) will not be able alone to achieve the victory in these elections, especially as the situation is threatened to recoil in the face of all progressive and democratic forces and people aspiring to achieve the revolutionary path.

He said that the general situation imposes on the front to be an attractive pole for the national and progressive directions that can intersect with it, especially since it is not involved in corruption.

 The front aspires to build a broad alliance that will withstand the forces of apostasy, backwardness and darkness in Tunisia. He added that the ruling coalition is the real embodiment of the revolutionary forces.

Ziad Lakhdar pointed out that the popular front aspires to continue the working, preparing and monitoring the situation to be ready to interact with all political variables emergency. 

Regarding the reconciliation act, Lakhdar said they cannot ratify the draft law on administrative reconciliation in the absence of other blocs, stressing that the parties that voted for it serve their own agendas.

"This project, in its current form, is an amnesty for corrupt administrators, a proof that its supporters are still in need of corruption," Lakhdar said.

In a related context, he considered the draft reconciliation law a consensus between Nahdha bloc and the closest part of Hafez Qaid al-Sibsi in the Tunisian Call Movement.

He stressed the need to find real solutions to the deteriorating social and economic situation in Tunisia, pointing out that talking about the presence of large quantities of oil in Tunisia is just nonsense.