Last summer, the Tunisian people supported their president's coup de force, which gave him full political powers. They were tired of a parliamentary democracy that, in their view, had plunged the country into crisis.

Tunisia's ten years of democracy have coincided with a deterioration in the living conditions of the Tunisian people. Imposed by President Kaïs Saïed, the state of emergency in force effectively gives him more power than the autocrat Ben Ali ever had during his 23-year reign, which ended in January 2011. When the international community asks Kaïs Saïed to return quickly to the Constitution adopted in 2014, Tunisians retort that the elected representatives of parliamentary democracy, at best incompetent and at worst corrupt, have only aggravated the economic crisis. The film She Had a Dream follows the journey of Ghofrane Binous, a young Tunisian woman running for the 2019 legislative elections. We sense the exasperation and disillusionment of the Tunisian population, tired of their politicians' empty promises.

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Co-presented by the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) and ARTE

“Quelles sont les causes de la crise politique en Tunisie?“ dans France Culture, 27/07/21.

BADUEL Robert Pierre, “En Tunisie, tout semble encore possible“ dans Orient XXIm 27/09/21.