Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Washington may be tempted to give up after Tunis’s democratic backsliding, but instead it should use targeted actions that have worked in other countries.
It severely weakens political parties and opens the door for the president to prevent anyone who has criticized him from seeking office.
President Kais Saied needs more carrots than sticks.
Five months after he seized power, Kais Saied has given no signs he plans to return the country to its democratic path.
Ten years after its protests sparked the Arab Spring, Tunisia remains the lone country in the Middle East to have effectively changed its system of governance. Yet many Tunisians have mixed feelings about how much progress their country has made.
Tunisia’s second presidential election was successfully held without any major disruptions, but an unconventional process and low voter turnout has left Tunisians with an unexpected choice.
There’s an un-American way to make the pink wave permanent.