October 23, 2009--

Green Party for Progress (PVP) secretary-general Mongi Khammassi voiced satisfaction at the progress of his party’s campaign, which provided the occasion to establish direct contact with the citizens and present them the contents of the party’s manifesto, lend a listening ear to their concerns and draw inspiration from them to vitalise the party’s action and enrich its programmes and its activities.

He said, during a meeting with the press organised on Friday in Tunis with attendance of representatives of national media, PVP lists frontrunners for the legislative elections, that the party’s slogan for the 2009 legislative elections, “For the Sake of Citizen’s Well-Being,” consecrates the right to material well-being, a basic right to a decent living, and the right to expression, organisation and political action.

He reminded of his party’s support, since its constituent congress in October 2008, to the candidacy of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali’s candidacy for the October 25 elections, given the firm conviction that he is the most capable person to carry on leading progress of the country’s successful development to more gains and achievements.

He reiterated his party’s aspiration for further measures and initiatives to boost political life and promote the quality of national information by enhancing the quality of the national information and by bolstering the fundamental freedoms and human rights. In this connection, Mr. Mongi Khammassi reminded of the book he has published on the judicious policy and reform choices of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali: “Twenty Years Later, Reasons Behind a Choice.”

After highlighting the important place of women and youth in his party’s lists for the legislative elections, he specified that PVP relied in its campaign on information technologies, through a website aimed to back up President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali’s candidacy for presidency, and to make known PVP, its targets and principles, in addition to the use of e-mailing and SMSs.

Mr. Mongi Khammassi recalled that his party also carried out distribution of its manifesto, as well as its “Ettounsi” newspaper with posters of President Ben Ali. Besides, he added, a caravan of fifteen cars of party made field visits in different governorates of the country.