Commenting on the crisis, Tunisian President Kais Saied said on Saturday: “The recent shortage of bread in some states is due to the efforts of some to fuel social conditions and work to manufacture crises in Tunisia.”
Saeed considered that “the loss or scarcity of certain other materials in certain regions, such as coffee and sugar, for example, is due to monopoly, illegal speculation and the control of certain lobbies over the distribution channels with the aim to harass the people.”
The finger of the accusation points to the political currents behind the crisis, led by the Ennahda movement of the Brotherhood, while the political forces call for the need to take the necessary measures to empower those involved and accelerate the search for urgent solutions to the crisis.
A crisis manufactured with political motives
Tunisian political analyst Nizar Al-Jilidi said in a statement to “Sky News Arabia” that the bread crisis comes amid successive crises related to food shortages, such as sugar and coffee. According to Al-Jalidi, behind the crises fabricated in Tunisia are a number of personalities, involved in corruption cases inside the country and affiliated with the Ennahda Brotherhood movement. These personalities are trying, according to the Tunisian analyst, to take advantage of their presence in certain government positions, to provoke crises linked to the lack of supply of basic products subsidized by the government in order to irritate the Tunisian street. Tunisia previously experienced the “bread revolution”, a consequence of the lack of food on the market, which certain political forces are currently seeking to repeat in order to implement a political agenda linked to its return to the political scene, in the extent that he considers. Al-Jalidi notes that, during the investigation of the gasoline, sugar and coffee crisis, it was proven that certain political forces were involved, foremost among them Ennahda, which exploited businessmen allies to create an economic and social crisis, with the aim of mobilizing the streets to demonstrate and create chaos.
The fight against corruption surrounds the crisis
For his part, Tunisian political scientist Ayman Al-Zamali believes that there is still no conclusive evidence behind the position of some political parties behind the shortage of bread in certain regions of the country and its provinces.
Al-Zamali said in a statement to “Sky News Arabia” that the demands of bakery owners and their inability to receive their dues and prepared materials for bread production, led them to take strike decisions similar to the decision to strike the bakeries of Sidi Bouzid and Sfax.
Al-Zamali said that there is a bread crisis in Tunisia, which is considered an exaggerated description, as the country is gradually recovering and entering the phase of stability and the phenomenon of the decline of monopolies, after having opened files of corruption and conspiracy against the state. security and the arrest of a number of personalities involved in these affairs, in addition to having been severely beaten by monopolists and speculators.
According to Al-Zamali, it is not possible today to explain the scarcity and absence of certain materials from the market, as a criminal act committed by certain parties, especially since the Brotherhood movement, for example , is in a difficult situation after the prosecution of its most eminent leaders and the imprisonment of its president, Rashid Al-Ghannouchi and his collaborators, Ali Al-Areedh and Noureddine Al-Buhairi, amid the opening of judicial files . Suspicion of having committed violations and crimes.
Al-Zamali points out that President Qais Saeed’s speech regarding the shortage of bread in some governorates is part of his work and his monitoring of citizens’ concerns and his work to restore stability and pump the markets with basic materials.
It is also part of his declared war on speculators and monopolists who have taken advantage of the conditions of chaos and the weakening of the state and its institutions to grab quick profits and endanger citizens and their Food Safety.
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