The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.

While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn’t necessarily produce the best outcomes.

There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.

I've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in general confuse Islam and Islamism. Islamism is a political movement that instrumentalises the religion to get to power, which has nothing to do with religion. Islam here in Tunisia is a religion of openness, of tolerance.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.