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The last time Tunisia plunged into political crisis -- its infant democracy unravelling amid political deadlock, assassinations and mass unrest -- it fell to the country's traditional guardians to find a way forward.
The president is consolidating one-man rule while the economy, sapped by mismanagement, the pandemic and war in Ukraine, flails. Groups that helped avert a past crisis are largely silent.