"RCD, go away!" The slogan was replaced spontaneously "Ben Ali released!" the day after the departure of former president, evidence that the Democratic Constitutional Rally party beholden to Ben Ali, is inextricably associated with the former regime. Maintaining the power of some ministers also continues to raise the ire of some opponents.In many ways, the RCD recalls the communist parties of former dictatorships of Eastern Europe. With its two million members claimed - in a population of eight million people - the party has long been indispensable in Tunisian society. "To have access to free health care card, a credit to the bank, a school near his home, join the party helped a lot," reflects Bensedrine, journalist and opponent's historic return to Tunisia on January 14 after being forced to leave the country in 2009.
"The card party was almost an identity card," she says. "The party had set up a parallel administration. It adheres to obtain services such as scholarships or accelerate the electrification of his home, but also to avoid the problems: membership was a way of life" supports Vincent Geisser, Tunisia specialist at the Institute for Research on Arab and Muslim world.
On the ideological level, the RCD has moved away from socialist affiliation claimed by Bourguiba. Although affiliate of the Socialist International to its exclusion order on January 17, the party was closer to "a Third World populist ideology," says Vincent Geisser, "Ben Ali denied the validity of class struggle and advocated the The advent of a middle class.
" "But the ideology was secondary anyway, nuance there, the party was primarily to serve the President and worked in a mafia logic of relatives in the service of power." "We never ADHERED RCD by ideology, but only by clientelism," says Bensedrine. In any case, no divergence of ideas and debates were tolerated within the party.
Satellite organizations such as the student organization or RCD Scouts allowed to infiltrate all sectors of social life. In other countries also, associations close to the party allowed "to monitor all the anti-Ben Ali and intimidate the demonstrators," says Vincent Geisser. A mesh that allowed the party to detect any difference.
The party was present even in the families of some opponents, like the father of Slim Amamou recently joined the government. "All of RCD offices across the country are closed, the party officials are hiding," says Bensedrine. The only decisions that the party is still able to take the lead seems to end: the exclusion of Ben Ali and the dissolution of the Politburo, the executive body of the party.
All ministers of the new government from the former regime have also decided to leave. Others are rather confident that the RCD is no longer safe. "The party is already clinically dead. Pronouncing its dissolution would be a simple statement of its purpose. This will remain a powerful, symbolic act but merely a detail," says his side Bensedrine, calling primarily for managers to be judged .
For the others, "we can not purge the entire administration of its technicians." The unionist Houssine Dimassi named minister of education and employment, who resigned Tuesday at the request of his organization, the powerful General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT), also finds that the RCD is "a component of the country" must .
"We can not exclude the government. It makes no sense, but it must have a place commensurate with its weight," he pleads. "One could imagine that some party members standing for election under the label of a DC purged of its more involved in the mafia and criminal abuses", ahead even Vincent Geisser, imagining the RCD in the form "of Liberal Democratic party which some former opponents could still join.
Jean-Baptiste Chastand
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