Tunisia's parliament debates the power and water cuts with no minister in the room

The Assembly of the Representatives of the People (ARP) held a plenary debate on Monday, July 27 on the recurring electricity and water outages hitting several regions during a record heatwave. No member of the government attended despite advance notice, and deputies attacked the executive's failure to explain the causes: Fatma Mssedi demanded the government put forward solutions, while speaker Brahim Bouderbala said the session was meant to draw on other countries' experience to inspire reform of the sector. That a crisis shutting down households and industry drew no government answer in the chamber illustrates how thin institutional accountability has become since 2021.

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