Well, I argue that before the 25th Tunisia didn't have a functioning parliament. The overwhelming majority of legislative activity consists of ratifications of international treaties, most of which are loan agreements. Most substantive pieces of legislation
https://twitter.com/LKwesiJ/status/1420699853378752518
and the underlying policies are drafted and/or initiated by international donors and international NGOs. Parliament has been unable to perform its monitoring mission and effectively check the executive.
Every single time Parliament launched an investigation into corruption, incidents, government abuse, policy failures the investigative committees were dead-born. Never investigated anything seriously, never published any conclusions.
The two only things parliament has been effective at:
- Ensuring political partie's representation in the government;
- Infighting, including endemic physical violence under the Parliament's cupola.
- Ensuring political partie's representation in the government;
- Infighting, including endemic physical violence under the Parliament's cupola.
There's a third thing: ensuring that no corrupt or criminal parliamentarian's immunity is lifted.
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