The Future of Democracy in Tunisia

Many tunisians associated democracy with economic growth. They thought overthrowing a dictator ten years ago would improve their standard of living. And it hasn't done those things, and the economy has been sluggish for a decade. People don't necessarily want to scrap their democracy, but they feel their democracy is not delivering for them. But i think, unfortunately, what happened now, as you have a president who already has ruled a bit like an authoritarian over the past year, will now have license to be more authoritarian. It strengthens him. It allows him to be more autocratic. And then who knows who comes next? That could be an even more autocratic figure that comes in after him,.