Tag: Democracy
Dialogue in Libya: All Roads Lead to Tripoli’s GNC?
UNSMIL’s Bernardino Leon announced that political dialogue between the GNC and the Tobruk House of Representatives (HoR) would take place inside Libya within few days. The announcement was made at the GNC headquarters on 2 February, following Leon’s meeting with...
Realpolitik Prevails
On Monday 2 February, PM Habib Essid announced a revised composition of his cabinet following lengthy negotiations with the main political parties represented in the National Assembly. Despite deep disagreement within Nidaa Tounes, Ennahdha was attributed the employment portfolio in...
A President for All? Caid Essebsi Enrages Southern Tunisians.
Beji Caid Essebsi’s statement on a French TV channel, in which he declared that it was thanks to “Ennahdha, Islamists and Jihadi Salafis that Moncef Marzouki managed to go through to the second round of presidential elections” has triggered a...
A Compromise in the Making?
Echoes from Tripoli and Algiers indicate that a compromise for the Libyan crisis may be in the making. There is seemingly talk of a fresh roadmap through which both the General National Congress (GNC) in Tripoli and Tobruk’s House of...
Presidential Elections: Not without Surprises
As was expected, Mouncif Merzouki and Beji Caid Esebssi emerged as the top two favourites of voters in the first round of Tunisia’s presidential election. Partial and unofficial results show that Essebsi obtained around 39.46 % and Merzouki 33.43% of...
Bernardino Leon’s Balancing Act
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling of Nov. 5th which annulled the House of Representatives’ elections, UNSMIL announced that it “[took] note” of the decision and that it would be “studying it closely.” This wording and subsequent declarations by Bernardino Leon...
The Supreme Court resets the Counter
Against all expectations, the constitutional section of Libya’s supreme court ruled in favor of the appeal against the legality of paragraph 11 in Article 30 in the 7th Amendment to the Constitutional Declaration. The paragraph in question, known as the...
Two Weeks before Elections Ennahdha Maintains the Suspense
Late on Saturday night, 8 November, Ennahdha’s consultative council announced its call on its members to vote massively in favor of those whom they deem fit to serve the national interests of Tunisia, in the upcoming 23 November presidential elections....