The authority is to take Tunis. Will be there by those who, civilian or military employees were more or less zealous former President Ben Ali? By "Democrats", opponents still the plan? Or by Islamist Nahda party? In the aftermath of the stampede, under pressure from the street, the former head of state and part of his family to Saudi Arabia, everything is in Tunis to preserve a semblance of legality.Pointing to Article 59 of the Constitution, the Prime Minister, Mohammed Ghannouchi, announced on Friday 14 January, he assumed "provisionally (...) load acting president." In a brief speech, he pledged to "respect the Constitution and to implement all the reforms announced (...) in collaboration with political parties and civil society components.
Prime Minister for eleven years, Mohammed Ghannouchi, 69, was not a close friend of Ben Ali. Senior officer training, more than a political economist, little known to Tunisians, it was not involved in repression. Cases relating to security are dealt out to him. But he let it go and accepted the stranglehold on the political life of the ruling party, the Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD) which he was a member of the Politburo since 2002.
When he read his brief statement on television, Mr. Ghannouchi was surrounded by two other chiefs RCD: President of the Chamber of Deputies, Fouad Mebazaa, 78, also a member of political bureau of the RCD. Kallal and Abdallah, 68, chairman of the House of Councillors - the equivalent of the French Senate.
The latter is, for years, attracting the interest of organizations defending human rights who accuse him of torturing opponents when he was interior minister in the 1990s. In the wake of a popular revolt that has left dozens dead, Tunisians they accept to be led, even temporarily, by men from the "benali? It is not acquired.
But what is the alternative? One of the problems facing the countries is the weakness of the secular opposition. Personalities who embody the lack of troops. Twenty-three years under Ben Ali's political arena have made a desert. So much so that in recent years, the loudest voices of opposition came from the Tunisian League of Human Rights, the oldest in the Arab world, journalists and dissidents in the judiciary.
The Islamic current benefit he's empty? This is the biggest unknown. When Ben Ali took power in November 1987, the "bearded" Movement of the Islamic trend (MTI) Rached Ghannouchi (no family relationship with the Prime Minister) were an important political force and structured. Last a short period of state of grace between Ben Ali Mohamed Ghannouchi and relations will deteriorate.
The head of MTI, who will be condemned to death for "conspiracy", is forced into exile in Britain while his supporters are the subject of fierce repression that also divides the "democrats" should defend it or not the enemies of freedom? Since then the situation has changed. MTI (now Ennahda) was still banned in Tunisia, but the authority had maintained contacts with the Islamic-conservative.
Some had been allowed to return to Tunisia. And an Islamic bank and a radio had been introduced in the country under the control of the family of deposed president. Ben Ali ousted, Rached Ghannouchi committed during an interview broadcast Friday by France 24, "to work with political movements and civil society to build a rule of law." But will he be able to do so in a strong position? Jean-Pierre Tuquoi Article published in the edition of 16.01.11
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