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they couldn't imagine that a disabled person could be an athlete. my family thought i was brought to those countries to beg, because that is what many disabled people end up doing, begging on the streets. it was only after they saw my success that they started to understand and support me. my hope is to win the gold medal in tokyo, bring it back here to senegal. that when i'm training for, ah, this is algebra and these that help stories, the biggest political group, inter nivia, the another party is calling for dialogue to end. the political crisis comes after accused president k side of cruise. trade unions are also calling for the president, establish a roadmap, also the crisis user county. she use the international spokesperson for the and all the party. we absolutely reject be unconstitutional. announcements made by
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president i had 2 days ago. they are a great violation of the constitution. we and all the major political parties. engineers as well as national organizations, still decide to organizations and constitutional experts. all agree that these are unconstitutional. and the way forward is to reverse these announcements and return to to dialogue and to the legal constitutional order. january 6th attack on the us capitol hill has been described as a clear plan to disrupt democracy. police officers who work that day have been taking it in turns to testify in front of the select committee. there reliving the verbal and physical abuse, they say they suffer during the insurrection. former president, donald trump, was accused of inciting the right is the 1st person to face trial. and the hong kong national security law has been found guilty of inciting secession and engaging in terrorism tongue and kit was prosecuted for riding his motorcycle into
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a group of police officers. cases of groan of ours have searched to a record day, the high and the host city of the olympics are being or 3000 new infections in japan's capital. tokyo protests have been held against the games with concerns. it will become a super spreader event. flash floods and saddam displaced more than 2000 people and hundreds of homes have been destroyed in the eastern states have got to read people . there are angry about the government's response. protest is a block, the main road and the threatening violence. one person has been killed and for others a missing after an explosion. the german city have never happened. that a tank fall that an industrial facility at the 16 people are injured. authority say the explosion is an extreme thresh, as the headlines fall have enough. i play for you here on al jazeera. why not to the latest installment of inside story? ah, ah,
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ah, good tune is it fall under a new dictatorship? the president in 50, acted lawfully when exact the prime minister, and put a freeze on parliament. the biggest political party is calling for dialogue. so where does this leave unity as young democracy is insights to? ah, ah. hello and welcome to the program. i'm bonus. junior is often held up is the only success story of the arab spring.
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but 10 years on and it's democracy is looking front jail. president chi side has defended, sucking the prime minister on suspending parliament for 30 days. he says he acted lawfully under the constitution. he's also imposed nighttime curfew embalmed public gatherings. janet his biggest political party and not a is calling for a national dialogue to get out of the crisis. while some celebrated the president's decisions. others, a warning of a return to authoritarianism. laura burton monthly reports the near empty streets of chinese or stone contrast to days of protests under strict curfew. many have not dared to face the army which is now patrolling tissues, parliament and government buildings. away the country's biggest political group, the enough the party has called the dialogue and the keys, the president of the could we reject the juice, know announcements,
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and we welcome all the rejections that have come from most of the political party as well as some of the organizations. ready and we call the changes in people to the com and vigilant, and you ready to defend the democracy. the many came to the streets in celebration and outrage at president ty sides bold, move, firing the prime minister and freezing the parliament for a month. the president said, says his decision was taken after following the process laid out in the constitution. nothing to supper. i have taken responsibility. i am taking a historic responsibility. even those who claim this matter is related to whom need to revise the lessons in the constitution to present side who controls the armed forces. made a storm warning against any one. taking up arms saying the biggest danger
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a nation can face is internal explosion. the dismiss, prime minister has him a she, she says he will not be a disruptive element. he will hand power to whoever the president chooses, like this street like you can read the parliament is also divided today between the majority leading party in department like and doing this and who elation will cold and describe the decision of prison price i constitutional dictatorship. why, again, he's this decision, you need his democracy, leaving it biggest. today, they will also fears of a crack town on the freedom of press. after security forces stormed al jazeera, the buildings, it's a move out there has strongly condemned. the president's move had fall. i must protest with much of the anger direct is it the enough to party for the handling of
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the economy and a raging pandemic? of this fear, it's an unconstitutional power grabbed the could lead to a dictatorship, a move that would see the end to the jasmine revolution, the paid the way to a decade of democracy. lower about among the for inside story. ah, let's bring in august joining us from june. this is terry chloe, history professor of the mediterranean school of business. and he's also a political analyst on june as yet from washington. d. c. sarah, your keys, a senior fellow in carnegie's middle east program and from both in turkey. sali, yes and a fellow at the ostrom workshop at the indiana university blooming to a warm welcome to you. all, sarah, if i can begin with you, you are tweeting earlier. what to watch out for this pans out if the president grabs more power, we're looking at a qu, we should keep an eye on the reaction of the security forces. sure,
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keeping on other arab states. is this not really though just a coup in slow motion? to me, it looks like a cou. i think if you read the constitution that the president is using to justify his actions very clearly states that he needs to consult the prime minister and the speaker of parliament before taking these emergency actions, which he didn't do. so i think it's very hard for him to say that this is not a coo and i think, you know, we're still at the things are still unfolding. we need to keep watching. what else he does. if he does put a new government and power very quickly, then maybe we can back off from that. but right now i think it clearly looks like sally, the e u and the u. s. hasn't said it's a qu yet. what are they waiting for? first and foremost, i believe the priority of the us and euro is on keeping states the realty. so in the stable country, so perhaps there might be stress regarding this more, where we're, if this move key to, to stable. and furthermore, if it promises
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a certain level of prosperity in the long run, the us and euro might just be satisfied with what they had. ok, well, tara salo mentioned there, the need for stability. is that what the unit is? general labor union is worry about worried about civil society groups are worried about an order is worried about because they're all they will seem to be giving the president time. yes, exactly. so what i have to disagree a little bit with sarah says it's earlier with what, what might make this a cool, really, as if the president would go beyond the 30 days. but clearly he has an interpretation that is very problematic. they would say of the, of cross 80, he could have a lot of power. but this is not really a traditional military. some people are basically comparing this to happen to egypt
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or 30, which is not exactly that tunisia context. so that's point one. it might become a but for now it's not. and not even establishing a government that would be the solution that is going to establish a government. everyone knows that he's got the name of prime minister. the coming hours is not days and you government going to be established. the main question that they're going to be controversy about is if you goes beyond the search for closing down the problem. but here we have to put those, we context things. and between it, we're not dealing with the regular additional established liberal democracy. we're talking about the democracy that is still incomplete major basically solutions. we're not completed, especially the constitutional court. and it is a responsibility lays on political parties, the political belief,
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including and especially mother, which was one of the main parties since 2011. and, you know, this is just not worked. what has been established by 2015 and has the commission petition says, but the matter is that it's possible among other major parties, but the certainly it's the main part of the responsible or not basically because she doesn't including averaging the course. ok. so we'll, we'll touch on the maturity of trinity democracy a little bit later on. but sarah, the prime minister, the now the x prime minister hisham the she, she, he seemed also now willing, is willing to give way and waits. why has he done this so easily? so willingly, i think it part. yeah, i think in part because of the, this idea of stability that we're talking about. i don't think he has much to gain from trying to fight this. i think, you know, between all the various measures that the president has laid out, including the curfew and quitting travel bands. i mean, i think it's, you know,
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i'm sure the prime minister is not happier. former prime minister is not happy, but i do think it's in his interest to just kind of quietly step down and see where things play out. a sally, do you, do you think that the prime minister or the president might try and consolidate power further? what mighty try and do so the $1000000.00 question, and i don't answer unfortunately try to campaign. i said propagated for direct democracy and even after his campaign through a progress speeches, he was also very critical as skeptical multiple parties, particularly the response we should consider as unfair barriers. you know, for kids direct engagement with citizens or for him to be able to represent the general be of, you know, so he had some ideas about direct democracy and even occasional reference. the real,
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whenever we did not see any concrete action in his, in his side to be able to implement. but he had in his mind. so, and you also consider that you got outside or unlike delays in prison, who perhaps has some network relationships inside the broker site coming as an outside or he will most likely need the support of individuals who have me shared with some ideological or may not sure or so even if you try to call so there's power, it will eventually need to performing new coalition within the government. not only going to also recent as well. ok. sorry. it took shelly on the state to the state of judy and democracy. i mean 1st
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firstly, how significant are the differences between the religious and secular parties they managed to govern by consensus for years. our differences being amplified by side force is what's going on there. the, the one of the main misleading ways of looking at what's happening is they, they come to me between some of them, secular parties. and the idea that the consensus between the stickler party is going to resolve the problem that is again, established liberal democracy in tunisia. but you know, the consensus that was basically agreed upon between a lot of them. one of the main things that are quite deep after the 2014 elections lead to what we can call and but many donations gone up kind of democracy, democracy that is based on the consensus of individuals, especially the lead that of a lot of them. and i see the lead that of the of the us added to that is that there
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is no, we can amik and social delivery. it would be they would empower, they would in alliance. but they deliver that not make lead major reforms. and they did not fight corruption, it's actually the opposite. they issued the law in 2017 that give us the general amnesty to people who were with the old regime spotted times and basically establishing a non and just form of, of resolving the problems of the times. and that was perceived by many regions as basically giving a free card to, to people who are corrupt. and this is the 2019 elections was it was a yellow card for the police. and they think much of the political elite especially in love, did not get the point not see how people are really frustrated with what's happening given go way for outsiders. and what we may call even populists for sides, including side by side they think is published leanings to the left rather than to,
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to the right and emphasizing anti corruption policies and things like that. and never went on into the additional consensual back 6 and sizing this bridge between 6 and some of and missing the whole point that the much of the public is not really interested in these identity politics. it's, it's money in it to nomic social problems and especially production. and i think after almost 2 years of the chins, what we have seen of the city it said was the right context bed. i took that the put unit in the stablished in this room and we'll get to see you now. he's going to lay down a roadmap. if you might talk a little little bit about it later. ok, sarah, has consensus been the problem? i mean with the consent has been no real opposition. how's that to check on to act
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the check on the government? absolutely. i think, you know, none of the parties in tunisia have been able to actually deliver on the most important thing right now, which is economic progress. neck and prosperity are chinese and particularly append damage caused a lot of this. but even before the pandemic started tunisians were many teachers weren't able to feed themselves, you know, the economic situation for them was decreasing, particularly in the marginalized areas. and so, you know, i'm very skeptical that president died by consolidating power in his own hands. or even if he appoints a new government, i'm not sure you know within 30 days that this government's going to be able to do what they need to do in order to bring tenicia out of the economic crisis level on the health crisis. no government has so far been able to actually adequately deal with the pandemic, which is ravaging tunisia right now. and i think it was a big mistake for side to decide he's going to take this on. on his own, solid, 2018, afro barometer survey found 81 percent that unity and do not feel close to any political
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party. how does the president move forward when not, is the view changes have of the current state of that? because the political parties? well, position has always been an outsider. you know, you build your campaign as an outsider and you could call support the co parties and all the co class in general. and i think this view overlap with tunisia, lunch with both parties overall. and i will also cite and barometer study from 2018, where above 90 percent of the major course either individuals, the national institutions to be corrupt, to engage in correction. so i say simply built upon this perception and kids jumping and kept his momentum on being an off site. there is 2 new shots right now. blame come for better, right or wrong made it to you just it should be in the country started to ill
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current shortcomings on the boat to go on the ruling elite. and the fate strategy is now is to continue placing him outsider to this particular class. while we were, as you will see in the next 30 years. so it least started for portion of the population. given him some credit, we will see in the next 30 years 30 days story whether he can deliver or not. if he can do or you can use momentum or if you fails to do so, if popularity it might, it might be dropped substantially. ok, tarik democracy doesn't solve unemployment, it doesn't fix poverty, it doesn't improve public services. does the president need need to promise to continue democracy or does he need to promise people that he's going to fix the very basic needs they have? what is the, what are the answers they're looking for? oh, certainly, it's hard them to know publicly he's not denouncing democracy,
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i think, in depth the amounts against many populous denouncing liberal democracy and diseases . basically rejecting a kind of fragile democracy. but his road map is not going to be about. there is not going to be about his own projects. going to be about the business system. he's going to push for a road map that would intrude, certainly referendum of the system, which is say my parliament, which gives more floor to political party. so he's going to push for different them on the political system is going to push for the system. and he's going to push for a change in the law that is going to basically push for individual lists. again, we can do a little bit, but it's going to take more than 30 days to sort out, isn't it? alum, do you give him? no, no, no. i'm not talking about 50 days. they have have to be clear here. what we're
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talking about is not the 30 days window the 30 days. i think he's going to go beyond that. the 30 days is going to be the debate. if the parliament is going to be open up again or not, sarah, do you see a road block that pounding out? is that the sort of thing, but the presence is going to be doing? yeah, i think he has said all along, even on the campaign trail, that he wants a consolidated system, a presidential system. he doesn't like the parliamentary system. he's been saying all long, but he wants to get rid of parliament, which is why i'm very skeptical that after 30 days or within 30 days, he's going to suddenly say ok parliament return. i mean the same people, he doesn't like, it's the same institution that he doesn't like. i do think he will put forward a roadmap that says to me just should have revised electoral law that they should get rid of the prime minister position. they should get rid of the parliament. i don't think that that's what the chinese people necessarily want. maybe they do, maybe we'll see if there is a referendum on that. but the way he's this is not democratic. you know, if,
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if he wants to change the system, there's a process, you know, you do this through the government, you don't decide you're going to suddenly take all the power for yourself. then declare that this is the system you want to have. but then sat a given the grid situation of many tunisians, worse than it was before the hour of spring. why does it have to be democratic for them? why can it not just bring the relief that they're looking for? yes, i think, you know, if you look at history of tenicia, but also globally, the way that you have better governance that you have better services. the way that you actually get people to think they need is through good governance through better governance. it's not through consolidating power and authoritarianism. it didn't work for tunisia, underbelly. it's not going to work for tenicia under side. mean, i think what we've shown throughout the world is that, you know, you need to have people, institutions that are accountable to the people. you know, people have a say in a voice in the origins that affect their lives. and the way that they're going this roadmap that i think he's going to put forward is not the way to actually help
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deliver for the people. ok, sally, what's happening in june is there's not how it pound out in egypt, but ought unions looking nervously over to the egypt of a lot with envy at the apparent stability that are they worried that it could become a coup with bloody and as brutal as egypt went through, well, i think the comparison, it's making a comparison will be almost catching the concept of power graph. so to me is a different country, egypt with different institutions and kind of say, it's not a system. but i think the answer will depend on, on the talk. so into nature. and i think me and not the supporters are rightfully fearful right now, because this is all of the inverse fears, you know, to be excluded from the system in a way that they can not push for clean their work. so but for
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other tunisians, i think some of them are hopeful, if you saw in the streets, and some of them might be indifferent, and some of them are even nervous. so i don't think that is appropriate to put all denisia in the same category. i'm cost perspective was fisher. yes. i, she needs a certain portion of your population is hopeful that you know, getting rid of the soco political class. so there's some benefits, and only the realtor ok, carrick, you are, are unique in it is a much a totally different society from, from egypt. but do people where you all look over to how it's pam dow, that the parents stability economic economy is expected to grow 5 percent by the end of next year in egypt. june easier is contracted because of the corona virus and the collapse in tourism game. so that is in the section of the chinese population that with the way down things,
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they are not really aware of how much it can on the growth is happening in each. but they see stability and they see some kind of what they can perceive. some kind of prosperity which is not due to the accurate, but really what's happening is not about competitive. it's about about being impressed by what's happening. you need to be that it's by being basically disillusioned by what's happening in please. yeah, that's the main problem. and many tunisians basically a band we have so many pauls that show denisia, the majority of 3 are still favorable for democratic institutions. i think so many people that went to the streets in july 25 and celebrated the night. the decisions of sides were not basically does not have a problem with the markets, but they have a problem with a kind of democracy. they see it as they see it as a kind of the book is a close down politics within consensual,
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closed rooms and did not really establish the main problems of teenagers. they did not see the political class expressing their main warriors. and that's why they, they, they, they have a problem with that kind of, not with them, not with the with, but there is still a section that is still somehow in the status of the old times. they have just to add something here that map that's going to be proposed by the site is going to be distracted by the balance of forces. so his government, that's going to be nominated. the coming as i said, hours days. he's got a name of a new prime minister and so forth. they are going to start with major economic, social and to him challenges. so that the get a, they're going to be given sometime by the population. i wouldn't say 30 days, i would say $3060.00 days maybe even 90 days to progress basically watch what's
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gonna happen. and it's in basically the interest of fire that his government to do major to quick a basically a step to get him. it was the i m f is going to be critical going to have and i am if agreement very soon, that's going to have a major. what's happened as going to happen in the coming months or folks. unfortunately, we are out of time. but thanks to all august to terry chloe, to sara yerkes to sali yasu and thank you to for watching. you can see they thought all our programs again, anytime by visiting our website alger 0 dot com and for more debate, go to our facebook page. facebook dot com forward slash a j inside story. you can also draw the conversation on twitter handle is a inside store for me, bernard smith, and the whole team here, by the
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