Tunisia on the Skids
With the approach of the crucial elections, the political tension rises, the social climate of violence escalates and moves into the mores of the Tunisian society as a new instrument of dialogue
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Tunisia-on-the-...
It has only to refer to the violent incidents of last weekend, including physical aggression bloody politician Abdelfattah Mourou to measure the severity of the phenomenon and to sound the alarm. Why this is happening in Tunisia, the instigator of the Arab revolution which aims to establish a true democracy? But should we not first achieve the successful democratic transition and the goals of the Revolution?
This is a point of contention and a center of a dispute between a Troika dominated by the ruling Islamist party Ennahdha - on one side and the opposition, the Central Association and the components of civil society on the other side.
If the first considers that the country is on right track and that the government is doing its job despite the "conspiracies" and "roadblocks", the second sees an Islamist party hegemony, an attempt to seize power to restrict individual and public liberties and impose a way of life according to its doctrine and its criteria.
Just yesterday, after the protests of Sidi Bouzid and the confrontation with the police firi,g rubber bullets, Ennahdha can find no other explanation than to accuse the party of Nidaa Tounes, Beji Caid Essebsi and present it as the " Rcdistes in arms ".
Who is wrong, that's right, the question is not there. In fact, we live in a period of high turbulence where the adversarial fault lines of parties, all ideologies and all factions are quick to exploit violence and are blaming one another.
Lotfi Ouenniche – Le Temps
This is a point of contention and a center of a dispute between a Troika dominated by the ruling Islamist party Ennahdha - on one side and the opposition, the Central Association and the components of civil society on the other side.
If the first considers that the country is on right track and that the government is doing its job despite the "conspiracies" and "roadblocks", the second sees an Islamist party hegemony, an attempt to seize power to restrict individual and public liberties and impose a way of life according to its doctrine and its criteria.
Just yesterday, after the protests of Sidi Bouzid and the confrontation with the police firi,g rubber bullets, Ennahdha can find no other explanation than to accuse the party of Nidaa Tounes, Beji Caid Essebsi and present it as the " Rcdistes in arms ".
Who is wrong, that's right, the question is not there. In fact, we live in a period of high turbulence where the adversarial fault lines of parties, all ideologies and all factions are quick to exploit violence and are blaming one another.
Lotfi Ouenniche – Le Temps
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Tunisia-on-the-...