Jebali met with the leaders of three political parties on Friday but made little headway in forging consensus. The parties will re-convene on Monday to discuss the new cabinet make-up but no clear deadline is in sight regarding the formation of the technocratic government. Neither is the long-awaited consensus. Ennahda still plans to move ahead with the Saturday rally.
Ennahda frames the call for the Saturday action as "defense of the revolution". Vice-President Mohamed Akrout said that party supporters need to turn out en masse to "defend the revolution".
In reality, they are defending nothing but their partisan parochial interests, strenuously refusing to relinquish the reins of power. Ennahda's clinging to regal portfolios only prolongs the political stasis. If the party indeed had the nation's best interests in mind, it would listen to the voice of reason. Instead, the party's intransigent Sahbi Atig says that "two catastrophes" took place on February 6th - Belaid's murder and Jebali's initiative. Dommage...
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