In 2019, former constitutional law professor Kais Saied was elected Tunisia’s new president. An unlikely candidate for the country’s top political post, Saied launched a modest election campaign, painting himself as a defender against the corrupt and self-serving ruling elite that betrayed the country’s 2011 revolution, which ousted longtime president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. […]
Tunisia’s Return to Authoritarian Rule
After little more than two years in office, President Kais Saied has reversed all of Tunisia’s democratic reforms.
