The pressure of the street in Tunis to demand the resignation of the transitional government and ministers from the Ben Ali regime has taken a new dimension Sunday, January 23, with the seat of the Prime Minister's palace, begun by a thousand young people from the center the country. The continuing protests throughout the weekend in Tunis has revived speculation about the ability of the interim government to resist popular pressure, but an appeal to the indefinite strike of primary teachers has been launched on Monday, when Theoretical classes resume.Unionists, leftists, Islamists, ordinary citizens, including women and children: Thousands of protesters have laid siege all day from the palace of the Kasbah which works Premier Mohammed Ghannouchi. Sunday night, they were still several hundred to defy the curfew and attempting to spend the night outside the prime minister.
"The people just bring down the government," chanted at dawn participants in the "Caravan of liberation" parties on the eve of the center-west and the country's rural poor, still deserted streets of the capital. Joined by a steady stream of protesters in Tunis, they were the first to lay siege to the prime minister, raised cords, police and military.
"They stole our wealth, they will not steal our revolution," proclaimed a banner hung at the gates of the windows of the building, reflecting the defiance of the street against the new government, dominated by caciques of ancien regime . The protesters carried portraits of the victims of the repression of the uprising, during which at least 100 people were killed according to the UN.
"We came Menzel Bouzaiane, Sidi Bouzid, of Regueb to bring down the last remnants of the dictatorship," said one old man, draped in a Tunisian flag. These cities are the main focus of dispute in west-central rebellious in the front line during the popular revolt that led to January 14 the sudden fall of President Ben Ali.
But the protest also comes from the ranks of Islamists, again quietly present Sunday in the protests. Highly contested, the government seems to rely on a slowing of movement in the coming days and trying to get the country back on track by boosting economic activity in particular. Monday will be a test day to gauge the changing balance of power-government street.
Schoolchildren, college students and some high school students should theoretically return to class path, closed since Jan. 10, four days before the flight of Ben Ali in Saudi Arabia, but the union of primary school teachers called for a "general strike" from Monday to demand a new government free of any era cacique of Ben Ali.
The Minister of Higher Education, the opponent Ahmed Ibrahim, urged teachers to abandon this "strike irresponsible" during a party meeting, during which he defended his participation in the government "to avoid the total vacuum. " The authorities also announced Sunday the arrest of two of the closest associates of Ben Ali, President of the Senate and former Interior Minister, Abdallah Kallel, and the eminence grise of the regime, Dhia Abdel AzizBen.
The Tunisian news agency also announced the arrest of Larbi Nasra, owner of the private TV channel Hannibal, who has stopped broadcasting Sunday afternoon. He is accused of high treason and conspiracy against state security "for trying to" encourage the return of former dictator "Ben Ali.
Larbi Nasra was arrested along with his son Mahdi, married to a member of the family of the wife of disgraced former president, Leila Trabelsi, who also worked for Hannibal.
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