Tunisia Political Crisis 2013
December 15, 2013 by staff
Tunisia Political Crisis 2013, Tunisia’s “Arab Spring” revolution, born out of economic despair, is failing to deliver the jobs and opportunities of a better life that its people long for, and had once expected.
While Tunisia has largely avoided the bloodshed afflicting much of the region, a prolonged political crisis is hurting the economy badly and Mohammad Abd El Momen is one of the victims.
“We started the revolution and the politicians got the jobs. We got the tragedy,” said El Momen, who until July worked at a factory making safety boots for construction workers in Europe.
Then his Italian employers – like many foreign investors – gave up and closed the plant in Bizerte, a coastal city 65 km (40 miles) north of Tunis. Now the shopfloor is deserted, the factory gates are locked and 4,500 more Tunisians are unemployed.
“I cannot find even the cash for milk for my children,” El Momen said outside the plant in Bizerte, where former factory families now survive on meagre state handouts.
Their prospects remain bleak while ruling Islamists and the secular opposition argue over forming a caretaker cabinet, creating an atmosphere of uncertainty and polarisation that is worrying investors and international lenders alike.
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