Wednesday, January 26, 2011

A cabinet reshuffle is announced in Tunis

Tunis, special correspondent - Negotiations are underway in Tunis, to complete the composition of the Provisional Government. "It's a matter of two to three days," he told the World, Monday, January 24, the education minister and government spokesman, Taieb Baccouche. This rules out reshuffle announced the dissolution of the team formed by Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi, several thousand demonstrators defying a curfew now, continue to demand the departure.

In the great office of his Department, close to the Kasbah, the seat of government covered with graffiti and besieged by protesters, Mr Baccouche against all displays a calm. "The situation is apparently insurgency but the majority of the population wants a return to calm," he says. Certainly recognizes the Minister, re-entry into primary schools was "weak", if not non-existent because of the slogan to strike closely watched by the General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT).

But "we want good," said the spokesman of a government that relies upon the exhaustion of the movement. Sunday 23 afternoon outside City Hall in front of the Kasbah, General Rashid Ammar, Chief of Staff of the Army, appeared briefly in the middle of the crowd, a megaphone in hand. "The national army is the guarantor of the revolution," he said after calling for a minute's silence in memory of the martyrs of the uprising in Tunisia.

"We are faithful to the Constitution of the country. We will not get out of this framework," he said, adding immediately: "I wish this place was empty, so that the government works, this government or another. " Popular so far, as evidenced by the habit of families to take pictures before the tanks, the army today ensures enforcement.

For after having manifested themselves, the police have curiously disappeared from the streets of Tunis, at least they are more visible. Late in the night of Monday to Tuesday, the marchers came from poor areas of Tunisia, Sidi Bouzid, Kasserine, Thala or Gabes continued to show camping under the windows of the Prime Minister.

Place de la Kasbah in the middle of which was mounted a Bedouin tent, now has an air of Woodstock festival. There is dancing and singing continuously, while the walls were covered with Arabic calligraphy and slogans. To avoid this situation continues, economic and social measures should be announced soon: compensation for families where one member was killed by police during clashes before the fall of former President Zine El-Ali AbidineBen (a envelope of 500 million dinars, or 258.5 million euros) as compensation for owners of damaged businesses.

"Each case will be evaluated, Mr. Baccouche promises, including the police and army personnel died." Allowances for unemployed graduates should be paid and the "construction sites" open. Finally, the new ministers could be expected from disadvantaged regions of the country. Isabelle Mandraud Article published in the edition of 26.01.11

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