Tunis, Special Envoy - despised by former president Ben Ali, who rarely left his palace in Carthage, the Kasbah, the government headquarters in Tunis, now focusing all eyes. Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi, tries to stay there, while very determined demonstrators demanding daily disappearance of the provisional government he formed.Under its walls, Sunday, January 23, walkers of Sidi Bouzid, the city's agricultural center where the uprising left Tunisia, have joined thousands of people. "We started the revolution, we came to finish it," says Nizar Faleh, a teacher of 24 years. Determination of some to change everything after twenty-three years of dictatorship, will compose the other to avoid chaos: Tunisia is torn between these two aspirations, in front of an army strong presence in the streets, but so far at least, impassive.
Afet M'Saad, a retired teacher from Tunis, the Kasbah was before the early hours of morning. "I came to these people who come from areas forgotten," she says, pointing to the caravan of Sidi Bouzid. "I visited four villas Trabelsi, says that in his sixties, and it shocked me." Beside her, a man distributed a leaflet signed by a mysterious "Front, 14 January (date of the fall of Ben Ali), consisting of eight parties for the most unknown yesterday: extreme left, nationalist," Unionists Nasserists "and even" Baathists "(Baathists).
A common objective: to topple the government. The greatest force motivated by the fall of the new authority is the General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT), the central association. While Ahmed Brahim, Minister of Higher Education, called for a gradual resumption of course, Monday, January 24, UGTT launched a slogan to strike "unlimited" in the area.
"We can not enforce an order of a government that does not recognize," joked Nejib Sellami, member of the Federation of Secondary Education. "The government believes that the movement will decrease with time. This is our response," he quips. Yesterday was the turn of the police to protest in the street, a red cloth around his arm, offering a surreal spectacle.
Here, a policeman in uniform yelling into his radio service the favorite slogan of the demonstrators: "Get out, get out" there, a sergeant in the Border Police haranguing the crowd to demand the creation of a police union and demand better Wages: "I earn 360 dinars per month [187euros] after fifteen years of service," he says.
Symbol of the repressive state of the old regime, the police try to appear in a new light, as evidenced by the huge inscriptions traced on Avenue Habib Bourguiba: "Ben, you spit on the police", or " the people have freed the police. " All these protesters united in refusing to see displayed former ministers Mr Ben Ali to remain in place within the Provisional Government, now form a diverse group which Tunisian officials openly questioned.
"The protests are sincere, but those who are at the forefront of the movement are often those who most fear the transition," said Mahmoud Ben Romdhane, member of the management of Ettajdid, a former opposition party represented in the government and has held on Sunday, a rally in the capital to say no to chaos.
" In Tunis, the suspicion is spreading more and more about a possible military coup that would justify an uncontrollable situation made ... Around the Prime Minister, the advice is clear: "It must be," joked Faouzia Charfi, Secretary of State to higher education. Respected independent person, she was the wife of the late Mohamed Charfi, the only minister Ben Ali who has ever dared to resign.
"I did not hesitate to join the government, she says, because it must go forward." Left to face the interior minister, Ahmed Friaa, who replaced her husband in 1994? "No need for unnecessary smiles and moved us, we work," she cut. Convinced that an emergency order to protect at all costs the institutions and economy back on, the new power ignores the popular discontent, while the elite, it seems outdated.
"The true legitimate government that emerges from the polls in six months," says Afif Chelbi, Minister of Industry, a position he already held for four years - without being a member, says he, the party Mr. Ben Ali, the RCD. "But we must get back to work, and each will fall into another." Still, it still lacks five ministers to the call (social affairs, agriculture, transport, health and development) and that the measures taken as given many pledges to break with the past - general political amnesty, end censorship, separation State and RCD - seem inaudible.
Isabelle Mandraud Article published in the edition of 25.01.11
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