Meeting at the Carthage Palace: President Kaïs Saïed Discusses 2026 Budget Law
The President of the Republic, Kaïs Saïed, met with the Head of Government, Sara Zafrani Zanzeri, and the Minister of Finance, Mechkat Salama Khaldi, at the Carthage Palace on the afternoon of September 24.
Key Discussion Points
The meeting focused on the draft budget law for 2026. On this occasion, the Head of State reaffirmed the need for this project to reflect the social role of the State and to be based, in its broad outlines as well as in its details, on the achievement of the desired social justice. This, he emphasized, can only be achieved through new conceptions, renewed thinking, and unprecedented approaches.
Priorities and Challenges
President Saïed stressed that one of the priorities to be taken into account is to respond to the expectations of those who have suffered from unemployment, exclusion, and deprivation, while reducing allocations to certain institutions deemed unnecessary and without real reason to exist. He also mentioned the insufficient role of the Financial Analysis Committee, as well as the problems related to tax evasion and corruption networks, emphasizing that Tunisia is moving forward resolutely and that history has proven the correctness of its positions when it relies on its own capabilities, which, he affirmed, are in no way limited contrary to what is often repeated and spread.
Addressing External Interference and National Unity
As for those who spread a discourse of crisis and fabricate tensions by being instrumentalized from the outside, the Head of State estimated that they only inspire contempt and disdain. Sometimes silent, they then stir up trouble by obeying the orders that reach them simultaneously, seeking to lead the Tunisian people into impasses. However, he added, patriotic and free Tunisian men and women have demonstrated a consciousness that has foiled their maneuvers and revealed their betrayal.
Conclusion and National Resolve
President Saïed concluded by emphasizing that the difficulties inherited by Tunisia after decades of confiscation of the people's wealth impose a national duty to overcome them. Thanks to an iron will and hard work to pave the way for youth, justice will be anchored, real growth will be achieved, and the doors will open to the free women and men of the country, who will know how to triumph over all obstacles. He finally affirmed that work continues day and night, and that light will emerge as long as the determination to truly liberate, to get rid of the stigmas and pains of the past, and to realize the aspirations of the people remains intact. The people, he recalled, will only accept justice, freedom, dignity, and independence, without being satisfied with half-measures or false compromises, and will never renounce honor or the right to proudly raise the national flag under all skies.
