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Since the fall of Ben Ali on 14th January 2011, Tunisia has been going through a process of transformation and reconfiguration of the manifold relationships between the state and society. This paper sets out to investigate the strategies that the current interim government has adopted so far to persuade Tunisians that genuine reforms are in the making. It shows that the interim government’s strategies of “persuasion” have remained so far too ambivalent insofar as they have been based on two levels of persuasion, addressed to two distinct sets of actors whose interests and demands are not necessarily compatible with one another.