Nearly 12 years after his image went around the world as he freed a caged bird among protesters during Tunisia's revolution, Wadii Jelassi has lost the political ideals that inspired him to rise above the crowd.
on Saturday. But the new legislature will be largely powerless and, after years of political disappointment and a slide away from democracy, Jelassi will not vote.
As the other revolts were crushed or morphed into grinding civil wars, Tunisia's democracy stood as a lone beacon of success. Working as a porter in an electronics store, Jelassi suffered along with the rest of the country when the COVID-19 pandemic crushed the economy and pushed up prices.
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