While timely and necessary, the measures to halt the spread of COVID-19 have had an enormous impact not only on our daily lives, but also on our democracies. In this series, we try to asses how democratic practice has been affected and how we can make our future democracies more resilient.

We spoke to Hamza Meddeb, Research Fellow at the South Mediterranean University in Tunis. On the new government coalition in Tunisia, their first big challenge in dealing with the Covid-19 crisis and the effects on the most vulnerable populations.