In this series of reports Jasmine Foundation’s team will be summarizing the discussions of the draft Tunisian constitution, put before the plenary of the National Constituent Assembly on Friday 3rd January for final discussion and voting. The process is expected to take 10 days according to the timetable set out in the Roadmap agreed under
Image: BinaaNews Summary Today marked a long-awaited moment in Tunisia’s arduous democratic transition. After two years of drafting, the fourth and final draft of the constitution will finally be debated and voted on in the plenary. The draft is the result of work by 6 assembly committees and a Coordination and Drafting Committee, a national
dr Bartłomiej Nowotarski THESES FOR CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY FOR NEW PROJECTS (Based on the analysis of consolidation more than 80 young global democracies in the twentieth and twenty-first century) Only 27% of countries, including those who had undergone a democratic transition since 1974, managed to consolidate their democracies. The remaining 73% could be called hybrid “autocratic-democratic.”
