Which of the following factors is most likely to have led to the sanction of the present family law code in Tunisia?
A. Most Tunisian tribal leaders wanted to maintain the existing traditional legal system
in which they dominated local politics.
B. The postcolonial political elite were cohesive and closely allied with the traditional
tribes, whose leaders were all men.
C. The rulers wanted to please their conservative supporters to ensure that they stay in
power.
D. Tunisian political elites did not depend on the country's conservative tribes and
actively sought to undermine them.
E. Violent battles between reformists and conservatives continued long after
independence in Tunisia, but eventually the conservatives gained a decisive victory.
D
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