To Govern Is to Foresee: Five Years of Late Responses Under Kaïs Saïed
For five years, Tunisia has moved from one shortage and public-service crisis to another. Sugar, cooking oil, milk, flour, semolina, rice, coffee, medicine, fuel and meat have all, at different times, become difficult to obtain or significantly more expensive. In the summer of 2026, the list has grown to include bottled water, drinking water and electricity. Each crisis has its own immediate explanation, but their repetition points to a deeper concern: a state that too often appears to intervene only after a problem has already reached the population.
