Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The revolution in Tunisia, a source of inspiration for the Mediterranean

For freedom and dignity, the Tunisian people rose up. Yes, such insurgencies are still possible today. They are needed. They are promising. But they are threatened because they challenge powerful local interests and structures of international order that the fear and works immediately to crush them or mislead them.

They need unity, determination, insight, and solidarity. After twenty-three years of "passivity" apparent in a few days of heroic struggle and intelligently, without fear of repression, ideological without inflation, citizens of Tunisia - unemployed with or without qualifications, workers, students, professors, lawyers , officials, merchants, soldiers - shot a brutal dictatorship and corrupt, wasteful and shameful for their country for their land of ancient civilization, which remained in power supported financial institutions, governments and military alliances in the region , experts from the world "governance".

This revolution - and it is - opens new prospects, deeply encouraging for the Tunisian people, who can now regain control of his fate, and restore civil liberties union, democratic institutions regenerate, recover assets stolen or appropriated by the presidential clan, tackling patronage, mobilize domestic resources for development and the fight against poverty.

She is an inspiration for the neighbors who, for various reasons, face similar problems, either south or north of the Mediterranean. It helps create the conditions for a new system of international relations, including joint management of migration issues, security, economic and cultural cooperation, and associating on an equal sovereign peoples, enlightened, fair-minded and progress.

But at least three conditions are required for such opportunities materialize. Let us not hide that there is nothing guaranteed. The first is that Tunisians do not see their insurrection suppressed or warped by the representatives of the system to which the fugitive dictator has sent the instruments of power and could use the pretext of "anarchy" - as required, the cause - to interrupt the democratic transition.

Let rise in people's leaders to whom he can trust for the difficult navigation ahead. The second is that it is not choked off by military pressure, political and economic joint. Already, rating agencies announce rating is downgraded Tunisian capital markets, and voices to indicate the likelihood of a change of regime in Tunisia would expose the "anti-terrorist front." The third, then, is that public opinion and world governments, including those around the Mediterranean and the European Union, clearly express their support for the ongoing democratic transition and also make their case.

We urge them to embark resolutely on this path, together we form ardent wishes for the success of the change that has begun in Tunis. Collective Article published in the edition of 19.01.11

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