Sunday, March 6, 2011

Tunisia, a garrison for normality

The day after our evening shots with the camera among the demonstrators in the square Kasba, I'll see how close the garrison, after two continuous weeks. Sofian recognize me - the rest of Europe there are very few journalists - and speaks with inspired air and emotion: "It 's an historic day that too.

The square was the government buildings is now the Piazza del Popolo. On January 14, everybody knows, we chased the dictator, but now we have driven the dictatorship. " The "historic day" was held peacefully on Thursday evening between March 2 and Interim President of the speech on Friday afternoon March 3 with a few thousand protesters festive under the rain in the square.

Everything worked regularly in the capital, the markets were crowded, no one has come out showing the mosques. A week from the attacks of matrix unclear which shook the center and caused five casualties, supervision of soldiers and policemen in Central Avenue Bourguiba - not without some dramatic Tank Hose Reel and barbed wire - did not seem to disturb anyone.

The turning point that brought even the "kasbisti" - love that show and coming up with new slogans chanted - to decide to return home is the choice of the institutional process that the President has announced the provisional under the pressure of recent weeks: they elect a constituent assembly, not a new president.

It is not going to vote in a few weeks, but on July 24, so that there is a real time to prepare policy options. They seem to constitutional technicalities, but things are essential for those hundreds of thousands of people who are following the political process and who live as the road to freedom.

This is not to drive after Ben Ali, his team up to find a new father of the Plenipotentiary. That which is born - says the moderate newspaper La Presse as saying the boys jumping in Kasba square - is a Second Republic that no longer wants to be president. Although it is early to say how it will be because the new Constitution will be made after July 24.

It 'strange to hear so many people going into the merits of the difference between the French-American, considered negative, and the German or Italian as positive. (Apart from the reviews on Berlusconi). In a counterpoint to the bustling and intense intoxication Democratic square Kasba, there was in those days, the defense said "the Kobbe, on the lawn in front of the stage in the residential district of Menzah.

A garrison only from 17 to 19, and not continuous, because it is the defense of those who work and wants everyone to work and do not spend their time to manifest, or worse still smashing shop windows. No strikes - though few so far - no to union power UGTT returning to normal, demand for stability.

These are the watchwords of the thousands of well-dressed Kobbe, who have been in reaction to the resignation taxes Gannouci, former employee of Ben Ali who managed the first provisional government. Then the garrison for the stability left by the theme Gannouci - that made them appear as defenders of the party Rsd Ben Ali - and insisted on the need to restart the country, not in opposition to those in the front too Kasba and the demand for Constituent Assembly.

To celebrate at the moment are mainly Kasbisti (sciamanna girotondini Islamic-Communist someone you would call them, "he says Walid who studied in Italy). Chasing me to let me participate in group photos with bouquets of flowers and offer bread called "freedom." They sing "if they try to come back we will return." The girls wearing headscarves and the flag of Tunisia on the shoulders laugh if I have questions about the risks of the Islamic state.

"We are united, not to be the state to decide on headscarf or veil. Why worry about this instead of you also do not do quite the "Berlusconi DEGAGE? You see it works .. "These young Tunisians feel the forerunner of democratic revolution throughout the Arab world. And they have been done so far.

The issues of democratization, parliamentary versus presidential system, the dialectic between the spring and return to work rights, are likely to be similar in countries that are following them.

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