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Friday, January 2, 2015
Tunisia saw Beji Caid Sebsi sworn in as its president. The win comes following a second-round run-off earlier this month. Essebsi is a veteran politician and a former official in Ben Ali’s government.
Essebsi won 56% of the vote in the run-off against 44% for then incumbent Moncef Marzouki. With successful free elections and a new constitution, Tunisia has been held up as a model for democratic change and compromise between its secular and Islamist factions, however Essebsi’s ties to the ousted Ben Ali have some worried that the old guard is on the way back into power.
Essebsi vaguely addressed the issue at his swearing in ceremony saying, “I am committed to be president of all Tunisian men and women without exclusion. There is no future without consensus among all parties and social movements.” Essebsi was a former parliament speaker in Ben Ali’s government and before that held minister posts in the government of the country’s first post-independence leader who established the one-party system. Ben Ali fled into exile after the 2011 uprising.
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