Friday 28/05/2021
Tunisian President Kais Saied, left, and Stephanie Williams, Acting Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General attend the opening ceremony of the Libya’s peace talks in Tunis, Nov. 9, 2020. (AP)
Ten years after their respective uprisings, Tunisia and Libya are still at a crossroads.
Libya is indeed inaugurating a new chapter of its political transition by the formation of a new interim government on February 15, 2021, which must confront the gigantic task of securing and unifying a deeply-divided country and preparing the ground for general elections set for the end of the year.
For its part, Tunisia is struggling to consolidate its own democracy in the context of serious economic, social and political crises, further complicated by a devastating pandemic. The country is still also testing the political governance set up by the 2014 Constitution, a semi-parliamentary system with dual executive branches that are unable to manage and contain the rise