The deputy for Sfax, Fatma MSEDDI, announced her resignation from the Committee on Rights and Freedoms of the Assembly of People’s Representatives, denouncing the blocking of her bill on associations and the lack of efficiency of parliamentary work.
It is a strong and symbolic gesture posed this Monday the deputy Fatma Mseddi, by sending a letter of resignation to the presidency of the Assembly of People’s Representatives (ARP).
The elected official of Sfax officially withdrew from the Rights and Freedoms Commission, evoking a climate of inaction and a deficit of political will around a file that it judges strategic: the reform of the associative sector.
In his letter addressed to the president of the ARP, MSEDDI points to the persistent blocking of the examination of his bill, tabled since October 2023, and aimed at further supervising the functioning of associations.
A reform which it considers essential to protect national security and restore transparency in this sector. According to her, the inaction of the commission and the absence of serious debate have undermined the dynamics necessary for any major reform.
“I choose to withdraw myself to preserve the clarity of my positions and engage in more effective parliamentary spaces,” she writes, denouncing the current inertia of the Commission and the paralysis of her work, which would compromise her role of legislative and control.
This resignation comes as the debate around the regulation of associations regularly returns to the front of the political scene, in a context of increasing suspicion with regard to certain foreign funding or activities deemed opaque.
Known for its trenched positions, Fatma Mseddi calls, through this gesture, to an urgent revision of the functioning of parliamentary commissions, and to a return to a culture of productive debate within the ARP.
