Tunisia’s president is pushing an ominous constitution
Kais Saied will probably get his way, but his new charter will solve little
In a past life Kais Saied might have flunked himself for turning in such shoddy work. Once a constitutional-law professor with a reputation for exactitude, now Tunisia’s president, Mr Saied gave himself a big homework assignment this year: draft a new constitution. As with many a group project, it got going late, leaving his fellow authors just a month to overhaul the existing national charter. He finally released the text hours before a self-imposed deadline, only to admit a week later that it contained mistakes.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “A reform that makes matters worse”
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