Tunisia
Decentralizing Power in Tunisia — Not So Fast

Who says no one cares about a wonky subject like decentralized power? Asks Joe Mathews from Tunis.

A first-of-its-kind debate Thursday night between major parties, unions and government officials over decentralization of power was scheduled for an hour. But after 90 minutes, the translators, exhausted after a long day of work at the 2015 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy, went home.

The debate raged on.