Thursday, January 27, 2011

For the PS, "is to say if the Egyptians Mubarak must go"

After triggering a debate on Tunisia, Michele Alliot-Marie has been more cautious, Wednesday, January 26 concerning the situation in Egypt: "I can only regret that there are dead," said Minister foreign RTL. Then she proposed to take Tunisia's French expertise in policing, it posted this time a more balanced position.

Jean-Christophe Cambadelis, national secretary of the Socialist Party, International Relations, welcomes this change of tone, while insisting on the improvement. In any case, the attitude of Michele Alliot-Marie shows that another approach was possible in Tunisia. For the rest, the revolution Tunisian firm opened a cycle with the Iranian revolution and opened a new round in the Arab world: the aspirations for democracy, in which we are not obliged to use religious movements to try to more freedom.

That is why the West must be alert to what is happening in Egypt but also in Jordan, Lebanon ... What is striking, for now, is that it is a secular process and citizen who is at work. Not necessarily. The tone of France in Egypt is more accurate than that used on Tunisia. It was a bit brown eyes of the Arab street with what we did ...

And there remain questions about the attitude of France over Tunisia, as recalled by the Socialist deputies yesterday Gaëtan Gorce and Bruno Le Roux: they asked François Fillon clarification on the chartered plane from France to Tunisia with its onboard equipment policing. There was a tolerance of France against Ben Ali, if not support, we should not now remain voiceless.

It is not for us to say, but the Egyptians. We can say: "We need more democracy, we must respect his people ..." Clearly, there is a desperation in some countries, to borrow a term used recently, after the fact, by Nicolas Sarkozy. Again, it is not Egypt, nor in Tunisia, massive presence of radical Islamist movements in the protests.

One could say that Twitter has taken the place of preaching. Absolutely. Do not move from one posture to another. There is a resonance that speaks against Tunisia, but then to see a conflagration throughout the region, there is not that I will not cross. Yet the political demands for more democracy is there.

She had also expressed Iran, before being suppressed. French as a state, our relationship with Mubarak are strong enough to speak. To advocate free elections, saying that enforcement is not the solution. This is not the responsibility of a State to call for the resignation of the head of another state, but it may be the right path to follow.

Interview by Alexander Piquard

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