Determined to eliminate any institution that could act as a counter-power, Kais Said wants the UGTT to abandon its role as a political actor and limit itself to representing the interests of its members, who number some 800,000 in a country of 12 million inhabitants. “The UGTT is more than a trade union, but less than a party.” This is how Héla Yousfi, a researcher and author of the book L'UGTT, une passion tunisienne (The UGTT, a Tunisian passion), defines Tunisia's leading trade union. (…)