Today, how on earth, in any country, can any individual political leader hang around, getting stale, getting older and less imaginative, less responsive to new or creative trends in a population, for as long as 24 years?ĭoesn't being in government, wielding power, get boring, tiring, taxing, as a man grows older, as the years roll by? The behaviour of the said 'leaders' would seem to indicate, they think not. What we need to know is how and why this Tunisian president hung around - uninterrupted? - between 1987-2011! For 24 years! For that would seem to be the problem, not a 'Jasmine Revolution' or lack of a Jasmine Revolution. No, it isn't, and we need to know much more about 'Jasmine Revolution' in 2011. Really? In 1987 a Jasmine Revolution installs a president of Tunisia? And in 2011, a Jasmine Revolution undertakes to de-install him? Is this convincing? * the 2011 protest movement in the People's Republic of China that was inspired by the 2011 Tunisian Revolution and called a 'Jasmine revolution' by some of the organisers * the Tunisian Revolution in which President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced out of the presidency by popular protests in late 2010/early 2011, called 'the Jasmine Revolution' by many media organisations, and which was the impetus of the 2010–2011 Middle East and North Africa protests.

* the rise to the presidency of Tunisia by Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 1987 Wanting democracy or just wanting to voice criticism? Being sceptical about 2011's Middle Eastern 'Jasmine Revolution' 'Never let the perfect become the enemy of the good' - VoltaireĪ Wikipedia page modified during March 2011 has this to say about 'Jasmine Revolution'. Contact soon via convenient and virus-free: e-mail

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