Thread by @OuiemCh

He left the party & that in itself is honorable.Many refuse to accept is that #tunisia n exhaustion w/ #Ennahdha 10 years post 2011 has little do with Islamism. It’s the corruption,poor governance,unjust econ. policy & abuse of power. They’ve failed more than just their voters.

https://twitter.com/ananebelkis/status/1420896143085645829

People living in #Tunisia;our anger is domestic, no one sits & thinks which side of the regional power dynamic to support. IFI #austerity impositions have strangled public spending, crippled public services,frozen hiring, devalued currency.. plurality seat party can’t be innocent

We respect the legacy of all parties & mvmnts oppressed by past dictatorships (esp Far Left & Islamist) but #Ennahdha to b so powerful in parliament & in ministries & waste 10 years without taking serious action or even speaking out against ongoing securitarian torture & abuse?

Simplistic narratives:
#Tunisia was a democracy up to July 25 9PM local
What is democratic about a system that arrests over 2000 youth in less than a month for protesting against a gvt w/ recorded torture & the PM (also acting Minister of Interior) praises police professionalism?

What´s democratic about a system whose parliament is rocked daily by Facebook live streams of deputies beating each other up & using nothing but personal insults with little to no focus on any laws that respond to any popular demands that have been made clear since 2011?

What is democratic about economic policies that arent defined by representatives of the people but imposed by international financial institutions because political parties r in constant campaign mode & prefer quick fix solutions than design real long term policies?#Tunisia

Redefining democracy to b about more than electoral politics (a discussion needed urgently in the United States too) is crucial if this concept is to survive.if people r constantly failed by a purely electoral democracy under influence of powerful interest groups: it wont survive

As the brilliant @AnaneBelkis said, it takes a great deal of trauma accumulated over ten years to get people who fought for liberation from a dictatorship to cautiously observe a president impose measures that could slip into authoritarianism while promising its not his intention

Depicting #Tunisia ns as split into 2 groups: those that hate Islamists & those who want a secular state when key desire is to see a proper Covid response, better public health & education, less corruption, tax evasion & dependency on loans & imports is so ideological & partisan

Only an extreme minority of non-partisan #Tunisia ns r on Twitter. We r struggling w/ the amount of propaganda not only frm regional powers using bots & media outlets to make it seem so polarized but also parties like #Ennahdha that have reach & interest among journos & academics

Breaks my heart to see fellow #Tunisia ns more ready to ask foreign countries to intervene in domestic politics defying popular,nonviolent decisions than to admit to foreign observers that their party has failed not only its voters but a whole country that had a chance at justice

Non-partisan Tunisians arent looking to educate foreign observers or rehabilitate a political elite that continues to practice propaganda in the most insidious ways.. we r simply asking that those who arent already a lost cause read #Tunisia news with above realities in mind