Is Tunisia losing its grip on democracy? – BBC Africa

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Is Tunisia losing its grip on democracy? – BBC Africa


Tunisians are set to elect a new president on October 6th, but the arrest and disqualification of several political opponents of incumbent President Kais Saied have sparked concerns about the legitimacy of the election. In recent years, and especially over the past weeks, Saied has consolidated his hold on power, raising fears that the country…

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@Worksphere2

No we’re good

@normative1058

Sad but thats what you voted for.

@AhmedMohamed-xo1wk

This is a coup he has absolute power he corrupted the whole system in his favor

@RulgertGhostalker

in the process of “reclaiming” sahara desert for themselves, sub saharan africans have been transforming over 10 times that much united states land into desert.
where if the sub-saharans that go north are just shot in the desert, the decaying bodies will reclaim more desert than they can reclaim while alive…..because, living and breeding the way they do, sub-saharans have actually been CAUSING desertification.

@joshuamichau5122

Democracy is only for Christians.

@ACM24COM

No it was the Queen decision

@ACM24COM

No Deep State Area

@printhallo

Keep portraying minorities (protestors) and calling them the "people", those same protestors all voted, yet the majority (90%) went for Kais Said.

@loulouhj1104

We voted for him . And gave him another chance against corruption ..
we are rebellous people !! kais said knows that . If we ever felt like we losing democracy , we will go to the streets and kick him out like ben ali ..

@Bobo90

interesting how negative western media report about kais saied. Everybody who lives in tunisia know that the majority support him. The media says it got worse when he took over but the truth is he took over ruins and now try save what is left to build the country new while fighting with other powers and cartells.

@ybt1995

What is even democracy ,it is the biggest bs

@YLandolsi

Oh look who s talking now !! The country that supports israel to destroy the world and to continue its genocide shame on you p diddy democracy

@psyco-mhd2521

We voted for this men because we dont want foreign intervention and those wanna be relegious .

@rabiiwolfborn

mind your own business please, I mean OMG your country is stuck in poverty and misadministration wtf, have you even seen a Tunisian media talk about your country's internal issues, economic conflict and governmental corruption lol. We are happy with Kais Saied and he won voted by 90.7%

@chebeb9333

Democracy is a bulshiiit .

@S.A.L.A.F.I

We don't want your democracy…kais saed ❤️❤️❤️🇹🇳🇹🇳🇹🇳❤️❤️

@sioudmed4827

Fals news became freedom and being against corruption became dictatorship in our time what a joke 🫤

@Meyouletsgo

He was chosen by people ! Western media is fighting this !

Hey western countries, mind yo fkin business please 😊

@rio8298

Kais said❤

@rio8298

British fascists concerned about the democracy 😂😂😂

@vaibhavpandey9296

It's a clear dictator ship

@sarraboufarguine

BBC mind your business. Stop worrying about other coutries.

@machax002

TUNISIANS, YOU RACIST.

@mohamedmetoui3176

The corrupt islamist put hands in hand with corrupt business to empty the market of food . But the tunisians understand that the islamist are fake islam

@pirublood6492

as usual BBC is using their own corrupted agenda against the country’s who’s trying to rise perhaps BBC should use their “freedom of speech” against the genocide that has been committed by the Zionist in Gaza and Lebanon and stop manipulating people’s like we are stupid or something, media like BBC lost their reputation during this year and it’s obvious now that they are just a toolkit to brainwash people with false claims to create chaos and hide the truth.

@marwenarfaoui92

He was the only president who fought against corruption and he succeeded, despite being tackled by the western media like BBC and SkyNews and France24, he won with a majority of vote and he managed to stabilize the country in all aspects in security and economy, he came into power in a very democratic way he won the election against 30 candidate 80% of these 30 candidates were using dirty money to affect the vote of the Tunisians citizens, and he still won against them by the majority of the vote. Still a lot of challenges ahead of Kais Saied but as a Tunisian citizen, I am proud of having him as a president. He did a very great job to the country and still a lot to come in the future we all understand the hate towards Tunisia and towards its president because of his opinion about the war in the Middle East and the genocide against the Palestinians and how the European countries and the US lobbies trying to control Tunisia for their benefits so they can implement their agenda in order to create chaos in Tunisia 🇹🇳

@softnoob8589

We lost the democracy 2 years ago, due to the chaos caused by the politician and greedy people after the revolution. So be it, their part in this shall not be forgiven…

@mehdigarbaa5501

we didn't lose our democracy! we are free from foreigners country's terrorism

@seelim-3863

democracy is in our heart

@falfoultounes

In any case, we do not have a democracy of drug addicts, miserable people, slavery and zero hours contracts

@nadtabka5434

No , Tunisia never had a grip on Democracy, the president won his second term fair and square(🙄) , Next thing he will do :Change the constitution and stat in power for 30 years

@welcomeuser5875

Direction to poverty Hunger jail 😂😂 president for life

@TheRealPlug

mind your own business

@Sakond.

They want to destroy Tunisia the way they did with Libya. Be careful Tunis, don't turn against your leader.

@fblassie

Losing its grip. It never had it to begin with.

@LostFish01

One thing is for sure, Mr. Said is taking his country to the road of success, and thriving for regional stability and regional power , although the old mafia is still fighting against him, that is why for example the shortage of some products in the markets happened because the mafia controls the distribution and hides the products, While the production was normal throughout Tunisia, it is the hands of the thieves who are responsible for the shortage of products. As for the mentioned opposition, they were classified by law as corrupt and therefore imprisoned, not by order of the president, but by the judicial authority after court hearings and investigations.
Plus , as you mentioned the parliament was a corrupt entity and was reintroduced by new faces , and we should mention that a president elected by more then 2 millions voters , over 80% of the total of voters in Tunisia , is not a tyrant taking over a country !

@WalidZhani-me5yc

Chihmkom fi zboubna. Chda5l zbormkm l97ba fina. Cheddou Brittania mte3km w eb3dou zboubetna.

@madhiben5256

no we did not lose