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Now the award of the Nobel Peace Prize is always a big deal, seen as a statement about human rights in the world in a global political atmosphere. So this year's award to Tunisia's National Dialogue Quartet is being regarded as a gesture of admiration to the one country that turned the Arab Spring into a success. The quartet is made up of the Tunisian General Labour Union, the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts, the Tunisian Human Rights League and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers and they're seen as having together smoothed the country through a turbulent revolution to a peaceful and successful democracy. What sparked that revolution, and indeed the whole Arab Spring, was the suicide of a young man frustrated by corruption and his inability to improve his life. The demonstrations that followed were triggered by high unemployment, food inflation and corruption. I've been talking to Yusra Ghannouchi, spokesperson for the moderate Tunisian Islamist party Ennahda, a minority partner in the current government. I asked her how the transition in Tunisia had affected the economy.
The coalition government was formed, headed by Ennahda Party of moderate Islamists and that had the task of overseeing the political development and setting the foundations for democracy and the country but also dealing with a very difficult economic situation, not only the problems inherited after decades of mismanagement and corruption but also the instability from a post-revolution. | 
发表于 2016-10-10 19:36:42