The minister and former director of the presidential office in Tunisia, Dr. Ahmed Ayad Al-Wadrani, in an interview with the “Political Memory” program on “Al-Arabiya”, details the last days of the government of President Zine El- Abidine Ben Ali, before he finally left the country for Saudi Arabia.
In the last meeting with the then Tunisian prime minister, Mohamed Ghannouchi, Ben Ali asked to activate the state of emergency and work to form a new government.
In President Ben Ali’s last contact with the Director of the Presidential Court, Al-Wardani told him: I am going to the airport to say goodbye to my family who are heading to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah, and I will call you in the evening .
Furthermore, Al-Wadrani was surprised by the news that Ben Ali had left the country with his family, but was later informed by a mutual friend that he did not leave Tunisia alone.
In the episode, Ahmed Ayyad Al-Wadrani recounts the first days that followed Ben Ali’s departure from the country, and the lawsuits filed against him, in which definitive sentences have not yet been issued.
