Tunisian Poll To Provide Bellwether For Arab Spring

Posted by Omezzine Khelifa
Tunisian Poll To Provide Bellwether For Arab Spring
Your browser does not support the audio element. Tunisians, who touched off the Arab uprisings and rid themselves of a dictator nine months ago, are now going to the polls to elect a constitutional assembly. There is pride, confusion, but mostly optimism ahead of Sunday’s vote. The people of Tunisia had basically one choice at the ballot box for the last 50 years. But now they have more than 100 parties and thousands of candidates

IN DIRETTA DA STROMBOLI: IL MARE CHE ACCOGLIE

Posted by Omezzine Khelifa
IN DIRETTA DA STROMBOLI: IL MARE CHE ACCOGLIE
Ospiti: Alessandro Trainito di Medici sena Frontiere; Omezzine Khelifa, attivista tunisina della primavera araba.PODCAST DEL 25/06/2019 Original source: https://www.capital.it/programmi/cactus-basta-poca-acqua/podcast/podcast-del-25-06-2019/?refresh_ce

Risks to Tunisia’s Democracy

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Risks to Tunisia’s Democracy
As Tunisia begins preparations for the 2019 presidential and parliamentary elections, the state of the democratic transition is mixed. Tunisia has made major gains in rights and freedoms since 2011. But amidst a poor economic picture, popular discontent, and political divisions and gridlock, the consolidation of liberal democracy is far from guaranteed. To discuss the risks to Tunisia’s democracy, POMED’s Deputy Director for Research Amy Hawthorne moderated a conversation on March 12, 2019, with Youssef