KAIS SAIED
POSITION: President of Tunisia
REPUTATION: Autocrat in constitutional clothing.
When Kais Saied, a former law professor and political outsider, was elected president of Tunisia back in October of 2019 he was the hope of the region’s young democrats. After all it was here that the first stirrings of revolt sparked the process that shook dictatorships from Syria to Morocco in what became known as the Arab Spring in the
