Published on the occasion of Republic Day, this dossier is not intended as a ritual celebration, but as an act of lucidity and active memory. It brings together three critical analyses of the disfigurement of the electoral process in Tunisia between 2023 and 2025, through the presidential election of October 6, 2024, the final report of the ISIE and the indefinite suspension of municipal elections.

These texts examine in depth the confiscation of the right to vote, the staging of an election with no real competition, thepartisan alignment of the ISIE and the annihilation of local democracy. They highlight a series of serious, documented violations of civil and political rights: arbitrary exclusion of candidates, blocking of court rulings, illegal filtering of candidacies, criminalization of electoral observation, authoritarian control of municipalities.

Elections are no longer an exercise in popular sovereignty, but a tool for legitimizing power without checks and balances. So-called "independent" institutions have been subjected to executive control, and the right to participate in public affairs - a cornerstone of human rights and the republican pact, guaranteed in particular by article 25 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - has been methodically stripped of its substance.

In the face of this tipping point, official silence is not neutral: it erases the victims, trivializes the abuse and paves the way for its repetition. This dossier goes against this organized amnesia. It calls for a clear, courageous, legally rigorous and politically assertive assessment. For no democratic rebound is possible without acknowledging the violations, drawing lessons from them, and restoring the conditions for an electoral process worthy of the name.

July 25 must once again become a date of emancipation, not a symbol of resignation. Refusing to forget is already refusing defeat. It means paving the way for a democratic reconquest based on law, justice and participation.