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Chiraz Arbi is a development consultant and political science researcher. She focuses on democratization, human rights, and local governance in the MENA region and has worked for several national and international organizations as well as the U.N. She has conducted research in Tunisia and Morocco on decentralization, focusing on participatory governance. She was the project manager on local governance for the Tunisian organization “Al Bawsala.” She is also a trainer and has led courses on policy-making and the political participation of young people and women for international organizations and U.N. agencies. Ms. Arbi holds a master’s degree in diplomacy and international relations and a master’s degree in political science from the World Campus for Human Rights, organized between Lebanon and Morocco.
Tunisia’s 2023 local elections: How the "bottom-up structure" will strengthen Kais Saied's one-man rule
Tunisia’s upcoming local elections, the first to be held under the country’s new constitution, are set to take place on Dec. 24, 2023. The announcement of the date came roughly six months after the publication of presidential decrees, in March 2023, that dismantled Tunisia’s first ever democratically elected municipal councils, putting an end to the decentralization process initiated in 2018.
