POLS 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Democratic Constitutional Rally, Presidential Republic (1925–73), Democratic Forum For Labour And Liberties
22 Mar 2017
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The tunisian revolution, also known as the jasmine revolution, was an intensive campaign of civil resistance, including a series of street demonstrations taking place in. Tunisia, and led to the ousting of long-time president zine el abidine ben ali in january. It eventually led to a thorough democratization of the country and to free and democratic elections. They saw the victory of a coalition of the islamist ennahda movement with the centre-left congress for the republic and the left-leaning ettakatol as minority partners. The demonstrations were precipitated by high unemployment, food inflation, corruption, a lack of political freedoms like freedom of speech and poor living conditions. Zine el abidine ben ali, president: bloodless coup in 1987, presidential republic, constitutional democratic rally. Weakened political institutions: aging leadership, constitutional democratic rally politically bankrupt, declining political participation. Opposition: growing networks of activists, al-jazeera, facebook, bloggers.
