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Tunisia’s Presidential Race Tests Sole Democracy to Emerge From Arab Spring
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| Contributor | Bojicat |
| Last Edited | Bojicat Sep 13, 2019 08:57am |
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| Author | Wall Street Journal |
| News Date | Friday, September 13, 2019 02:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | TUNIS—When the people of Tunisia took to the streets in 2011, their protests set off the Arab Spring, fanning years of rebellion and war across the Middle East. Tunisia was the only country to emerge from that tumult as a democracy.
Today, as new democratic movements gather strength elsewhere in North Africa and Tunisia prepares for a presidential election on Sunday, the country’s role as a showcase for democracy in the volatile region is being tested.
The death in July of the country’s 95-year-old president, who was expected to step down in November, accelerated plans for the election, the country’s second since the uprising that toppled former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.
While a democratic Tunisia emerged from the 2011 revolts, other countries like Libya, Syria and Yemen remain mired in conflict. In Egypt the military seized power, reverting the country to autocracy. This year, though, protest movements breathed new life into hopes for democracy across the region after the fall of autocrats Omar Bashir in Sudan and Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algeria. |
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