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Taking stock of Tunisian democracy, 10 years after the revolution

FRANCE24, 14 Jan 2021
January 14, 2011 was a historic day for #Tunisia. After 29 days of an unprecedented #uprising, and in the first of the Arab Spring revolutions, dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was toppled by his own people. A decade on, how is Tunisia's young #democracy faring? Free elections have been held, but politics is often tumultuous. Some 13 different governments have run the country in the decade since the revolution, amid an ongoing economic crisis. Our correspondents spoke to ordinary Tunisians, as well as politicians and activists, to get their point of view on their country's democracy.

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