The Tunisian president approved the removal of Islam from the constitution.

The Tunisian president approved the removal of Islam from the constitution.

 The Tunisian president announced today that in the new constitution that will be put to a referendum soon, Islam will no longer be the religion of the government.

Tunisian President Qais Saeed said on Tuesday that the new constitution would no longer include Islam.

Al-Khaleej Al-Jadeed news website quoted Saeed as saying that in the new constitution, which will be put to a referendum on July 25, Islam will no longer be the religion of the government.

At the same time, he said that in the new constitution, “we are not talking about a government whose religion is Islam, but we are talking about a nation whose religion is Islam. “The ummah is different from the government.”

“It is not a question of whether the system is presidential, parliamentary or parliamentary, but it is important that the sovereignty belongs to the nation,” he said.

Tunisia’s al-Sadiq al-Balaid, co-ordinator of the National Consultative Committee for the drafting of a new constitution, said a few days ago that the president would elect and appoint a prime minister in the new constitution. “It will not be enforceable.”

The coordinator of the National Consultative Committee for the drafting of the new constitution in Tunisia had previously announced that the new draft constitution would be presented to Qais Saeed without mentioning the name of Islam as the official religion of the country.