It reaches more than 40% for those aged under 24. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate is at almost 18%. He then proceeded to give himself sweeping powers and crack down on opposition, arresting and imposing travel bans on judges, lawmakers and businessmen and closing the TV station owned by his political rival – all in the name of fighting corruption On 25 July, President Kais Saied (pictured above celebrating his landslide victory in the 2019 presidential election) sacked the Tunisian prime minister and suspended parliament, consolidating power in what critics called a coup. Today, according to Mohamed Ben Moussa, director of primary healthcare centres in Tataouine, a year and a half into the pandemic, the only hospital in the city of 149,867 citizens – has just six specialists.
In Tataouine, the southern governorate bordering Libya, in 2015 there were just 58 medical doctors for every 100,000 citizens according to the last report from the Ministry of Health, as opposed to 184 in the more affluent Sousse. The response to COVID-19 has exposed the stubborn social and territorial inequalities found in accessing health rights, which remain undermined. More than ten years after the 2011 revolution, structural socio-economic problems remain unanswered. However, he has yet to take a decision in their favour or signal any break with the economic and social policies implemented by all successive governments since the fall of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011. Since he first dissolved parliament on 25 July, Saied has constantly stressed his loyalty to "the suffering people", while castigating those who have "starved them".
However, there is no plan on the issues that matter, particularly unemployment and regional inequality. The new government's brief declaration of intent reiterated the overused statements made by all previous cabinets around a fight against corruption and revitalising the economy. Eleven weeks after Tunisia's President Kais Saied first concentrated power in his own hands, with an announcement that he intends to ignore parts of the constitution as he overhauls the country's political system, a new government made up of technocrats not affiliated with political parties has been formed by decree.Īfforded considerably reduced prerogatives, it is set to commence work without an exit strategy from the economic and political crisis that has aggravated inequity and exclusion.
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