Tunisia's Constitution Was Designed To Fail | Tunisia 7

On July 25th #Tunisia's Constitution took a beating. #KaisSaied was the man who closed the parliament, but he's not the reason democracy failed Tunisia... Failure was baked in from the start. #TunisiaDemocracy

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[azbeats]

As a sad Tunisian, I can say that your vid is pretty much spot on.. Thank you for taking the time to do this.

[oussemaklai]

While I'm actually very impressed with the effort & details I just want to clarify the following points:
- The president doesn't choose the Prime Minister directly UNLESS the winning party in the parliament nominates a person who fails to earn the Parliament's trust. So in Tunisia Enahda ( backed by some parties and independent representatives) nominated "Habib El Jamli" who failed to earn the parliament's vote, according to the constitution the president then has to nominate a prime minister himself and if this person doesn't earn trsut then the parliamentary elections have to be repeated ( Kais said chose ilyes fakhfekh and then Hicham mechichi).
- I would've loved it if you have talked about the former representatives and the businessmen/ former state officials who are now going to jail since they don't have immunity anymore and they have old crimes.
Thank you, it's always interesting to hear your points of view

[GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithm]

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[studioghibili]

Democracy is not sacred or complete, it all comes down to the will and perseverance of few good men to build a nation. And i hope Tunisia grows and learns from these mistakes to build something better.

[asleepintounes]

Brilliant. Thank you for such an excellent, un-biased and in-depth analysis. Really great job at tackling the source of the issue: the broken Tunisian constitution - a crucial factor which has barely been mentioned in main-stream media!

[seentv]

Excellent video like always !!!
from Tunisia ;)

[scottlaux]

I'm reading a book in the Punic wars. Didn't realize Carthage was only 179 miles from Sicily. Its strange how close Tunisia is to europe. And if Hannibal had won!

[destroctiveblade]

From our previous discussion I thought you were just gonna denounce the coup but actually you did a very good job in explaining the situation inspite of our disagreements you rarely disappoint me. I disagree that ennahdha wasn't a huge issue, it was, last time I mentioned their involvement in political assasinations and sending fighters to syria, I'd also like to point out that the court of auditors report proves that ennahdha along with the second party kalb tounes had a lot of illegal finances and thus by law they should not have their seats, but since they have the gouvernment they can act in total impunity. However I agree that fear from ennahdha has been a huge issue, we no longer talk about what we should do as a country we only talk about who can beat ennahdha (with a participation rate of 40% and 20% of the votes, ennahdha has the support of only 8% of the population, among the rest it's very unpopular) and also I agree that what happened was a coup, you don't have to be a jurist to see that and I am astonished that other people can't see that. So what I think should happen right now is that every corrupt politician should be judged and we should put an end to this total impunity so I do want a crackdown on ennahdha, after that kais will probably turn into a dictator so he should be fought, but if he's gonna become a dictator either way he might as well do us this favor lol.

[aminbenslimen]

jumping from 2nd floor is not a good idea until the house is on fire. what I'm saying is dictatorship is not a really bad thing when it's the best if not the only solution for Tunisia, if you ask any Tunisian to choose between remaining the current political situation or a dictatorship( especially with kais said ) i'm sure 90% will take the second option.
desperation can really change the way people think, in the end a democratic solution is possible but not in any time soon.
what's different in Tunisia from other countries is the unity of the people. there is no way an evil party can start a civil war. it's complicated yet promising.
amazing video ♥

[MehdiNakouriTn]

You're reading the situation much better than pseudo local analysts. Spot on.

[TheHigherSpace]

It's so confusing .. As a Tunisian I don't really know what I want anymore or what is the best way out of this ... If we have a clear goal we can act on it, but we don't. If Kais tries to cement his power, if you go and protest in the street what are you really protesting for? For the parlimant to come back and for the islamists to take back power and keep driving this country to the ground? (infact we are way passed that, we started digging long ago) ..It's the weirdest situation ever to be in ..

[aantony]

The Tunisian system isn't as bizarre as it may seem.

The usual situation in countries with a Prime Minister is that he is nominated by the Head of State (either the President of the monarch) and voted in by the Parliament. In essence this means that he is appointed by the Parliament, with the role of the Head of State being mostly ceremonial. The Head of State will therefore sequentially nominate the candidates of the parties in a descending order of votes until one of them manages to secure enough votes to elect a PM. In many countries, including Tunisia, the President is required by law to nominate the candidate of the party with most votes first. He's however allowed to find a different solution by consulting with the parties in case the first nomination fails, without needing to go through all the parties first. This is very common in countries with a similar system.

What is a bid odd though is that the President is directly elected, and not appointed by the Parliament. This isn't incredibly unusual though, as the President is also directly elected in many countries with a similar system such as Austria, Croatia and Finland.

There are some weird sections in the constitution, such as Article 80, and the method in which Constitutional Court is appointed, but the base of the system isn't that unusual.

[BruhGitmo]

When you think you're a grand strategist lulling your enemies into a false sense of security:

[andrewfalcon]

Hey can you talk about how Turkey and China trying to fill in the power vacuum in Afghanistan with the US gone now.

[aminebeji]

@MoFreedomFoundation I absolutely agree with you when you say the democracy is failing because of the constitution, as a Tunisian I saw this on a daily basis, the government is crippled, the parliament is a circus and no one takes the president seriously, for now I'm not worried on the freedom of speech, and I think this is our opportunity to fix what's broken starting with the legal system which is the main cause of corruption in Tunisia.

PS: if it doesn't work we'll start another revolution ;)

[nebojsag.]

Serbia has a similar system. The President is elected, but his only power is to appoint the Prime Minister, who is supposed to have all the real power.

In practice it depends wholly on the individual arrangement.

[maylexxx]

great video hope tunisia can recover from this setback

[gaydubbbz]

you could argue that the parliament has been slowing things down a lot, and their slowingness has been one of the reason as to why we don t actually have a constitutional court. all i hope is that he makes good use of the month he has and ends up fixing the current situation with said court and covid laws being very badly implemented and applied. he is indeed not following the constitution by not allowing parliament to group and i think this should definitly be adressed immediatly, ill just see in a month and if he tries to implement another month of parliament freezing without a hearing from a constitutional court or modifies the constituion then i will have no issues calling his actions a coup

[Yasmin-jtux]

Just thank u for this sir. This is the best analysis of what happened... The constitution was indeed designed to fail and it did...the transitioning towards democracy was not it from the very start. Under that system no one had power to make the slightest change everyone just paralyzed each other but thete's no one to point fingers to, not behind layers of alliances.

[logacoolxtreme]

nice water bottle you got there. good to know you're staying hydrated.