Day: January 6, 2015

Presidential Elections: Revolution, Counter-Revolution, and the Second Wave

The election of Beji Caid Essebsi President of Tunisia in last December’s elections motivated different readings among analysts. For some of them Essebsi’s election symbolised the “final phase of a counter-revolution that closed the Arab Spring parenthesis that was opened...

/ January 6, 2015

Libyan Crisis Chess Game

With no surprise, UNMSIL’s Libyan dialogue conference on 5 January did not take place. Hafter’s airstrikes on Misrata’s airport and port ended the divisions among Misrata leadership on whether or not to join Bernardino Leon’s dialogue meeting between Tripoli’s GNC...

/ January 6, 2015

Divisions within Nidaa Tounes Delay Formation of New Government

Almost two weeks after his designation to form a new government, Habib Essid has not yet managed to reconcile all key actors and stakeholders to be able to do so. The Popular Front, with 16 seats in the parliament, had...

/ January 6, 2015