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.
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

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29 Jul
1/ So this analysis is the top thing you see when you search for #tunisia. It’s been used by @trtworld for a very propaganda-like video (on propaganda - incidentally) .
Giving credit to researcher for saying his findings don’t reflect internal Tunisian politics (they don’t)
2/ they dont bcause internally in #Tunisia very few people use Twitter (mostly Facebook) & the trend didnt have success. Tunisian twittersphere is surprisingly small. If true the data reveals outside forces’ interest in using the moment for their own purposes & regional dynamics
3/ What I’m more interested in is what the reverse trend (something like #savetunisiandemocracy) will reveal in terms of other countries’ involvement (Turkey / Qatar) in promoting that sort of language including coup narratives. I’m sure we’ll find a pretty strong bot trend there
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3 Feb
1) PM Mechichi met today with heads of Police unions (who have been responsible for violations of citizens’ privacy, inflammatory campaigns against some people they identified from the anti-police violence & anti-law 52 protests) to show his appreciation for them
2) Some of us were hoping for some sort of reaction from the PM / President to the violence & lack of professionalism shown by these unions since the Protest last Saturday. Such an explicit show of good relations between the acting Minister of Interior & the unions is a bad sign
3) Some unions staged protests where they openly chanted against him /called for unconstitutional strikes & even broke chain of command by deciding how they’ll tackle upcoming protests. It seems he submitted to them. Seems his unpopularity means he needs any support he can find.
Read 6 tweets
1 Feb
1) In a fascinating turn of events Tunisian #Islamist party #Nahdha & reborn former regime party #FreeDestour party led by #AbirMoussi r both supporting Security Forces in what they consider attacks (some paint was thrown & middle fingers raised by peaceful protesters) on police
2) who were in full riot gear, preventing protesters from reaching the Ministry of Interior during a march against police violence & Tunisia’s harsh drug law 52 (21 yr old killed with a tear gas canister to the head & 2 young men for 30years for smoking hash in an empty stadium)
3) Some speculate orders for police to stand still in formation & not attack protesters w/customary level of violence came frm PM Mechichi (acting Minister of Interior)
We barely had enough time to process that the police were relatively restrained when syndicates began reacting
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