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    Dictator: deposed. Democracy: check. But what about jobs?

    Oct 04, 2019 4 minutes
    Other Tunisia candidate Tharaya Hamrouni (right) defends her party’s track record and promotes their new economic vision to Kamal Sini (left) and his wife, Fatma, in the Sidi Hassine neighborhood of Tunis, Tunisia, Oct. 2, 2019.

    Less than a decade after leading a revolution that rocked the Middle East and inspired democratic uprisings across the Arab world, Tunisia’s revolutionaries are changing their tune.

    Years of inflation and joblessness have led many Tunisians to begin losing their faith in politics, even the revolution itself. To win them over, liberals, Islamists, and human rights activists are preaching jobs, investment, and economic growth in private, on the airwaves, and on the campaign trail.

    After ousting a dictator, ratifying a constitution, holding elections, and overcoming Islamic State, Tunisia’s freedom fighters are learning perhaps the toughest lesson in politics: It’s the economy, stupid.

    Tunisia’s peaceful democratic revolution in 2010 was led by a cross-section of human rights activists, lawyers, Islamists, liberals, leftists, and socialists,

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