Anatomy of a Failure: How Tunisia’s Democracy Was Undermined

Internal political betrayal, external cynicism, and the unravelling of the Arab Spring’s last laboratory. On 25 July 2026, thousands of Tunisians took to the streets of central Tunis, not to mark the 69th anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic, but to denounce the power grab carried out exactly five years earlier by President Kais Saied. The demonstrators called for his resignation and an end to what they described as an increasingly authoritarian regime, accusing it of imprisoning…