2024-10-03 22:21:16
In Tunisia, the unemployment rate is stagnating at 16%, inflation is at 9.3%. Added to this is the persistence of precariousness in many unregulated sectors. Despite the president’s stated desire to fight against petty corruption, intermediaries and speculation, many professions are still exposed to it. As the elections approach, Tunisians do not hesitate to share their difficulties, but prefer to remain anonymous.
From our correspondent in Tunis,
In Radès, in the southern suburbs of Tunis, fishermen sell their fish directly on site, but Hassan Saïd, one of them, explains that normally, he would have a small shop to sell his catch. “ I sometimes spend fourteen hours at sea and when I return to port, I have to sell my fish on a shabby site that has been allocated to us. People come there to get drunk, so obviously no customers come », laments this fisherman. “ So, who should I sell to? Middlemen, because there is no one else to buy “, he assures.
For Boubaker, his colleague, it is a permanent anguish to be dependent on these intermediaries. “ They don’t care about the law, he denounces. They sell our fish for double the price and rip us off. I’m a fisherman, I shouldn’t have to worry and wonder to whom and for how much I’m going to sell my goods when I get home from the sea. »
Administrative issues
A few meters away, Kais Chebli sells his fish in a shed. He has other problems. The length of his boat was incorrectly recorded with the administration. Technically, he no longer has the right to go to sea, because his fishing authorization was not renewed because of this error. For two years, he has not been able to resolve the problem.
« Me, for example, I can’t go into deep waters, because if I get checked, and since I no longer have authorization, it’s normal for the coast guard to question me and ask me to return. at the port », he explains. This kind of administrative blockage often happens in the country, Kaïs hopes that the president will change things if he is re-elected. “ I know that he is interested in the problems of the most disadvantaged citizens. You have to let him work “, he pleads.
Everyday corruption
Carriers matter many disillusioned with politics. Parked on land in Bhar Lazreg in the northern suburbs of Tunis, they say they only have problems in their job, like Mohamed, a transporter for around twenty years. “ The problems start as soon as you hit the road with the petty corruption of the police. The ticket that you have to slip here and there as a right of passage. It’s non-stop », he complains.
Everyone refuses to talk about the presidential election. For them, their profession lacks so much regulation and supervision that no solution is possible other than daily resourcefulness.
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