Tunisia’s fragmented opposition struggles to confront powerful Islamists in next election, Washington Post (2012)

This news article says Tunisia’s fledgling democracy is threatened by a weak opposition that isn’t offering a viable alternative to the well-organized Islamists in power, and discontent is taking the form of angry riots with extremist overtones instead. In last year’s elections, the disciplined Islamist Ennahda took 37 percent of the vote and 89 seats in the 217-person assembly, three times more than the next best performer. It then joined in a coalition with two other liberal parties to form an unassailable majority of 138 seats.

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