It’s always
interesting to know something about the politics when you visit a country. We
inform you in the following text.
First of
all, Tunisia is a republic. It’s
independent since 20 March 1956. Before, they were a part of France.
When
Tunisia still was a kingdom, Muhammad al-Amin was the leader. After becoming a
democracy president Bourguiba took over control and began to modernise the constitution.
First he
supported the disestablishment. Further Bourguiba improved the legal status of women. Purely legal, a woman is equal
to a man in Tunisia but in the countryside women are mostly not appreciated. So
women obtained the right to vote and the minimum age to marry became 18 years
old. Which was all positive news to the women in Tunisia!
As said
before, Tunisia is a republic. This means that they have a Head of State who is elected every five years and who has a lot
of responsibilities. The cabinet is
leaded by a minister-president and the highest legislature is the National
Meeting (parliament).
The country
consists of provinces, country districts and communities all leaded by sheiks
and mayors.
Here you
can see the political parties, just
for information. The most important party is the Islamite Ennahda movement.
Others are the social liberal congress of the republic, the social democratic
forum for labour and freedom and the Tunisian communistic labour party.
Nowadays,
Moncef Marzouki is the Head of State. But it isn’t all peace in the country. Since
2010, a rebellions have appeared, the Arab Spring. Chokri Belaid was
murdered for political reasons. Further,
there were a number of protests with a revolution as result. Right now, the
government is overthrown and the president (Ben Ali) and minister-president
(Ghannouchi) have resigned.
They are
going to change the constitution but Tunisia is in a transition now. There are
a lot of indistinctnesses and apart from
public voice and pressure, there is nothing changing at the moment.
The days we
were in this country, we could sense the recent
political tensions and turmoil. We hope there will be a solution in the
near future!
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| The Arab Spring |
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| Moncef Marzouki |
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BeantwoordenVerwijderenI really liked the fact that a woman is equal to a man in Tunisia. In many other African countries it is not that way, but why?
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