Listen – Tunisia: Back to the future?
Mohamed El-Doufani writes:
Tunisian analyst Dr Ali Chokri looks at why President Kais Saied decided in July 2021 to suspend parliament and freeze political activities pending a new constitution, why that constitution – adopted in a low turnout referendum – is so controversial, and the present economic and security situations in Tunisia.
Hello and welcome to Five Minutes to Midnight. My name is Mohamed El-Doufani and our guest in this episode is Tunisian analyst Dr Ali Chokri, who will be discussing the current political situation in his country.
To start, I will outline the issues at stake in the present state of affairs in Tunisia.
Tunisia is one of two states that survived intact the so-called “Arab Spring”— the wave of unrest that swept across parts of North...










