Tnez overlooks the power vacuum

Overcome, at least for the moment, violence in the streets, Tunisia faces a dangerous power vacuum. The party of dictator Ben Ali has been dissolved, the police have withdrawn from the streets, the army still waiting but no one knows what's going on in his bosom, and at a time dominated by uncertainty and fear, the opposition does not inspire sufficient confidence.

Almost no one knows the emerging political figures and were completely silenced for decades. The central committee of Reagrupamientol Constitutional Democratic (RCD) party of the dictator fled, was dissolved yesterday after most of its members, while ministers leave their ranks. At the doors of its headquarters in the capital, thousands of protesters demanding his ultimate demise.

No haggling. And promised that will not relent in its efforts to get Ghanuchi and the government resign. But then a week after the escape of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, who many have dubbed Zinochet-raises the question. Who will pay the Executive? The Government, which resigned yesterday Minister of State, Zuheir M'Dhaffar, the fifth member of the Cabinet who throws in the towel, said that all political parties will be legalized, including Islamist Nahda (Renaissance).

And there is an agreement on a draft amnesty law to release political prisoners of any ideological bias. Do the fundamentalists? "Yes, of course," answered the Higher Education Minister, Ahmed Ibrahim. Confusion reigned among some families of these prisoners because Wednesday was already anticipated the release of all these and many remained in prison.

Similarly, another minister, after the first official meeting of the Cabinet, said that the State shall seize all real estate, stocks, companies and other belongings of the family of deposed president and the RCD. "This tactic does not work dropwise. We need a positive shock to completely dissociate RCD Executive," said Mustafa Benjaafar, one of five ministers resigned.

"There is great confusion," he adds, "about the personalities of the RCD and technocrats of the party that did not support the regime. But people puts them all in the same basket." The RCD had up to two million members, nearly 20% of the population. Without such loyalty, one an outcast.

"We want a new government, a new parliament and a new constitution. All new", sums up the central avenue Habib Burghiba Jamli Habi sociologist, who for a decade now earns his living as a handyman. "When there is freedom and know the policies of the parties," he adds, "will decide who to vote for." It is a serious problem.

Require absolute break with the past, completely ignoring the big picture facing. The daily Le Quotidien offered yesterday profiles of some of the opposition leaders with the most basic biographical data. Almost no one knows. A leader in exile, with more voice abroad than in their own country, was greeted at the airport by just 200 people.

"I do not know who to vote, but I tell you I do not trust anybody," says Professor Kamel Sahli, who lived through the transition while studying Spanish in Madrid, in a splendid Castilian. It seems unnecessary to call our protests, the main artery of Tunisia has become a permanent manifestation scenario that ignores the flood of executive decisions, with pleasant sounding to the ears of anyone who hates the old regime crumbling steps bounds.

Not only in the capital, whose urban area lies 20% of the 11 million Tunisians. Thousands of people yesterday filled squares and also in Sfax, the second-largest city in Kef, in the mining region of Gafsa ... Or vanish Executive ministers who belonged to the RCD and the protests continue, they swear all.

The once-ubiquitous portraits of Ben Ali are uprooted, as was the poster of the RCD in the party headquarters in the center of the capital. A good sign: the unpopular police has almost disappeared from cities and towns, but the disturbances are very rare. "This country is giving a civics lesson.

The police have removed the uniform and gone home. However, nothing happens grave, "said Sahli. However, the immediate future is full of shadows. Because no one can venture if in a few hours or days there will be another upheaval in the executive. That is precisely what the demonstrators want never tire of yelling, pointing his finger down, "Ghanuchi outside Government down." Cabinet is stacked at the challenges.

And the economic, suspended from Tuesday, financial transactions and activity in the stock market, do not walk behind the politicians. It is the reason why the Central Bank of Tunisia was quick to send a message of confidence to investors and foreign creditors. The agency emphasized that it has foreign reserves of 6500 million euros to meet its financial obligations over the next five months.

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