Tunisia’s Political Experiment Threatens Economic Collapse

A customer hands over Tunisian dinar banknotes to a vendor for a purchase at a food shop in Tunis, Tunisia

Photographer: Chedly Ben Ibrahim/Bloomberg
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Nice, France (AP) -- Tunisia’s increasingly authoritarian president appears determined to upend the country’s political system. The strategy is not only threatening a democracy once seen as a model for the Arab world, experts say it is also sending the economy toward a tailspin.