Tunisia: tussle over constitution and new electoral law by Farida Ayari The path from dictatorship to democracy is riddled with roadblocks. Take Tunisia, the genesis of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. A mass rebellion that began with a fruit vendor’s self-immolation led to the departure of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the North African country’s dictator since 1987. But how do citizens transform a political upheaval into a stable, democratic and accountable government? It has been a bumpy transition, as Tunisia and its neighbours have shown. After secular-minded Ben Ali fled into exile on 14 January, 2011, a special commission tasked…
