Democracy & Elections

Lawfare Daily: Recent Elections and the State of Democracy in Tunisia

Scott R. Anderson, Sarah Yerkes, Sabina Henneberg, Jen Patja
Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 8:00 AM
Discussing the trajectory of democracy in Tunisia.
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For today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Sarah Yerkes, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Sabina Henneberg, the Soref Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Peace, to discuss recent elections in Tunisia, which saw increasingly authoritarian President Kais Saied returned to office with a purported 91% of the vote. They discussed the elections' lack of credibility, how they have been received by U.S. and other foreign officials, and what they say about the trajectory of democracy, both in Tunisia and elsewhere in the Middle East.

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Scott R. Anderson

Scott R. Anderson

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Scott R. Anderson is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Fellow in the National Security Law Program at Columbia Law School. He previously served as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State and as the legal advisor for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.
Sarah Yerkes

Sarah Yerkes

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Sarah Yerkes is a Senior Fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is a former member of the State Department’s policy planning staff, where she focused on North Africa.
Sabina Henneberg

Sabina Henneberg

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Sabina Henneberg is a 2022-23 Soref Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Jen Patja

Jen Patja

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Jen Patja is the editor and producer of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security. She currently serves as the Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics, a nonprofit organization that empowers the next generation of leaders in Virginia by promoting constitutional literacy, critical thinking, and civic engagement. She is the former Deputy Director of the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier and has been a freelance editor for over 20 years.

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