Tunisia: Chairman Of Jihadist Commission Sacked

She denounces a "fury" of the ruling party. In Tunisia, the chairman of the parliamentary inquiry commission on the jihadist sectors has lost its place. The ruling party, Nidaa Tounes, has asked Leila Chettaoui to be replaced at the head of the commission because she is no longer a member of the parliamentary group.
For the member, this eviction shows that the party does not want to see the work of the commission created in January progress.

How were nearly 5,000 Tunisians able to fight in Syria, Libya or Iraq alongside terrorist groups? This is a question many Tunisians are asking, and to which replied the deputy Leila Chettaoui, by creating a parliamentary committee on the jihadist channels this winter.

Without always naming them, the member points to the Islamic Conservatives of Ennahdha and their close associates. Ennahdha was in the government at the time when there were massive departures in Syria, in 2012 and 2013 in particular.

In 2014, the Nidaa Tounes won the elections by campaigning against the Islamists. But today he is allied with Ennahdha. According to Leila Chettaoui, it was for this reason that she was ousted from the commission, as Nidaa Tounes has no interest, she said, in the fact that parliamentarians are seriously investigating the matter.

Even though some committee chairmen sometimes remained after leaving their parliamentary group, Nidaa Tounes had the right to ask Leila Chettaoui to leave. Perhaps the hon. Member is also paying the high tensions that have divided the ruling party for over a year and a half.