Tunisians are set to elect a new parliament on Saturday, 17 months after populist president Kais Saied suspended the assembly, seized virtually all powers and began ruling by decree.
But rather than lauding the vote as a restoration of democracy, analysts and politicians have said the institution, shorn of most of the functions exercised by its predecessor, would serve only to rubber stamp the president’s decisions.
Hailed as a rare Arab democracy after its 2011 revolution against the dictatorship of Zein al-Abidine Ben Ali, the North African nation has sunk deeper into authoritarianism since Saied’s power grab.
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