Top News The death of Tunisian President Béji Kayed Sibsi, announced this morning (Thursday 25 July), has brought Tunisia into a presidential vacancy. According to the Tunisian Constitution of 2014 in Chapter 84, the President of the Parliament shall hold the Presidency temporarily for a period of 45 days and the maximum of 90 days. Which was announced by Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Nasser, who said he would take the post of president of the country temporarily.
The death of Tunisian President Béji Kayed Sibsi coincided with a period in which Tunisia is expected to hold presidential and legislative elections. The Independent High Electoral Commission of Tunisia has announced that the presidential elections will be held until 15 September instead of 17 November.
The presidential election opens on 2 August and the election campaign begins on 2 September. Until that date, Muhammad al-Nasser will take over the presidency in Tunisia.
Who is Mohammed Al-Nasser?
Muhammad al-Nasser was born on March 21, 1934, in the city of Jamm, in the province of Mahdia. He continued his primary education at the primary school in his hometown of Gammam and the secondary school of Sadiq, and obtained his bachelor's degree in law from the Institute of Higher Studies in Law in Tunis in 1956. He received his doctorate in social law in 1976 from the University of Paris-Sorbonne.
He held important posts in the state, most notably the post of the Ministry of Social Affairs in 1974 under the late President Habib Bourguiba. He held the same position in the Baji government in September 2011. He also served as President of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs between 1961 and 1964, From 1965 to 1967, and then was appointed Director General of the National Office for Vocational Training, Employment and Immigration between 1967 and 1972.
At the international level, he was appointed head of the Tunisian mission in Geneva and represented Tunisia in several international organizations, including the chairmanship of the Commission for Social Development in New York in 1965, the chairmanship of the International Labor Conference in Geneva in 1976, the chairmanship of the International Labor Conference in Geneva in 1985 and the chairmanship of the International Commission on Human Rights, Coordinator of the United Nations Global Compact in Tunis in 2005, and President of the Institute of Social Consultations in Tunisia.
The political track of Mohammed al-Nasser is characterized by several stations, most notably his accession in February 2014 to the official Neda Tunis, and his appointment as deputy chairman of the party. Nasser took over the plan of the deputy head of the Tunisian Appeal Movement since 2014 and then assumed the presidency of the movement from 31 December 2014 to 30 November 2015.
Mohamed al-Nasser, 85, is currently the president of the Tunisian parliament since 2014. Nasser is the closest politician to late Tunisian president Béji Kayed Sibsi. "I want to pay tribute to what the president has done to build the state of independence and the presidency of the republic in the past five years," he said.
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Tunisia Seven years after the "Jasmine Revolution" .. Tunnel after the revolution
Political assassinations
The assassination of secular political leaders such as Mohamed Brahimi and Chekri in Tunisia's Balad was rocked in 2013. The country is routinely witnessing demonstrations calling for justice in both cases.
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Tunisia Seven years after the "Jasmine Revolution" .. Tunnel after the revolution
Past shades
Before the outbreak of the "Jasmine Revolution" seven years ago everyone was afraid of his shadow: the walls have ears. Today, Tunisians are proud of the freedom of opinion they enjoy.
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Tunisia Seven years after the "Jasmine Revolution" .. Tunnel after the revolution
Cafe Parliament
"Today, at least, we have the freedom to speak," is the tongue of the street boy in Tunisia. Coffee shops such as the Parliament became forums for discussions launched by the revolution from its bottle.
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Tunisia Seven years after the "Jasmine Revolution" .. Tunnel after the revolution
A bullet in the wall of the Bardo Museum
The Tunisian National Museum Bardot was the scene of a terrorist attack in 2015 that left 24 people dead. The economy, which depends largely on tourism, is still suffering from the consequences of that attack and a more bloody one on a hotel near Sousse.
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Tunisia Seven years after the "Jasmine Revolution" .. Tunnel after the revolution
The largest source of "alarm"
In addition to the Bardo museum, the city of Sousse witnessed a terrorist attack that killed 38 tourists. Tunisia is also the first country to have the largest number of fighters of the terrorist "Islamic State".
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Tunisia Seven years after the "Jasmine Revolution" .. Tunnel after the revolution
Football madness. Politic indifference
Some Tunisian youth complain that the community focuses more on football than politics in Tunisia after the Jasmine Revolution, ignoring serious problems.
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Tunisia Seven years after the "Jasmine Revolution" .. Tunnel after the revolution
The struggle for women's rights
In February, legislation criminalizing violence against women entered into force. Wafa Faraus was engaged in the struggle for women and was 15 years old. The revolution was one of the figures that drafted the constitution, ensuring gender equality. Today she is the director of Betty, the only refuge for battered women.
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Tunisia Seven years after the "Jasmine Revolution" .. Tunnel after the revolution
The only hope
For many Tunisians, the only option to escape from poverty is to take the sea to Europe on an illegal, dangerous and horrifying flight to European Paradise. In 2017 more than 6000 Tunisian coasts arrived in Italy.
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Tunisia Seven years after the "Jasmine Revolution" .. Tunnel after the revolution
The youth of Marcon on chairs without work
At one of the capital's cafes, men flutter around a plastic table topped with coffee cups and cigarette butts scatter on the floor. "This is unemployment," says one of the seated. At least three of those sitting in the cafe were deported from Italy after arriving there illegally.
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Tunisia Seven years after the "Jasmine Revolution" .. Tunnel after the revolution
Escape from the past to drugs
A frequent coffee shop owner says many Tunisians have gone abroad to escape jail terms, spend their families at home or cut off any ties to the past. "We rode the sea I and five others to Lampedusa, where I spent four years in northern Italy and I was trading drugs to send enough money to my family."
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Tunisia Seven years after the "Jasmine Revolution" .. Tunnel after the revolution
Screw the last into the casket
Hundreds of Tunisians have lost their lives while trying to reach Europe by sea and illegally. Along the Tunisian coast on the Mediterranean are the tombs of unidentified people. Benas Gerdzionas /
