The Tunisian paradox: Is suspending politics the best way to save democracy?

Francis Ghilès, Associate Senior Researcher at CIDOB, reflects on the situation in Tunisia after President Kais Saied dismissed the government and suspended parliament in late July in an article for The Spectator: ‘We swore to defend the constitution,’ shouted the deputy speaker of the Tunisian parliament, to which a young soldier retorted, ‘We swore to defend the fatherland’.

Article

>> Access to the information