TUNIS
The escape of President Ben Ali has thrown the country into further chaos on the level of security, mass escapes from prisons and the terror of the devastation and looting despite a state of emergency and curfew, while, on the political front, it looks for a way out of crisis with the formation of a government of national unity .
After 23 years of dictatorship, Tunisia is a country that re-found, and tried the patch yesterday with the transfer Interim Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi has not lasted a few hours. The protests of the opposition and squares, with events across the country thanks to word of mouth on the internet finally released, have prompted the government to ban every character in "temporarily" to the absence of the President, by providing for the vacation of the final charge on the basis art. 57 of the Constitution.
Parliament President Foued Mebazaâ has temporarily assumed presidential powers and the Constitutional Council announced new presidential elections within 60 days. The chaos and violence, however, have undergone a dramatic surge today: thousands of prisoners have escaped from prisons and many were killed across the country, from Monastir to Madhava, from Sfax to Kairouan, Kasserine in from Bizerte to Kram, the same center of Carthage and Tunis. At Monastir dozens have died in part because of the fire to mattresses in a dorm with assault after a tractor to break through the walls of the enclosure. And a growing fear of looting and destruction, now mainly attributed to men loyal to Ben Ali.
In several suburbs of Tunis - popular and wealthy - and in other parts of the country's population has been holed up in houses and began to organize itself with armed patrols to repel any attacks. After dissolving the government, the interim president today entrusted to the same premier Ghannouchi was asked to form another, ensuring that "no one will be excluded" from the political process and that the next government will be "a government of national unity." Accepted as the demands of the opposition, and in particular of its most recognized leader, Mohammed Nejib Chebbi, the founder of the Democratic Progressive Party, which in 2009 had unsuccessfully tried to show up at the polls as a rival of Ben Ali. But his PTO is outside the Parliament, not having time to protest, presented to the elections. And the same Chebbi not have titles to appear presidential in two months, since the Constitution was amended precisely tailored to its exclusion.
The political debate that will continue tomorrow must therefore find a common consensus not only on the formation of new government, but also regulatory sull'escamotage which enable everyone - it is the PTO's request - to run for president. But the Tunisian political scene reappeared a political subject for a long time excluded: it is Rached Ghannouchi, leader of the moderate Islamic Ennahda, outlawed in Tunisia, from London said he was ready to return home to participate in the EAA national unity government . "The intifada Tunisia has managed to topple the dictatorship," he said from Paris. The country traditionally more secular Maghreb seems therefore, about to return to confront the issue of political Islam, which worries even his neighbors.
The escape of President Ben Ali has thrown the country into further chaos on the level of security, mass escapes from prisons and the terror of the devastation and looting despite a state of emergency and curfew, while, on the political front, it looks for a way out of crisis with the formation of a government of national unity .
After 23 years of dictatorship, Tunisia is a country that re-found, and tried the patch yesterday with the transfer Interim Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi has not lasted a few hours. The protests of the opposition and squares, with events across the country thanks to word of mouth on the internet finally released, have prompted the government to ban every character in "temporarily" to the absence of the President, by providing for the vacation of the final charge on the basis art. 57 of the Constitution.
Parliament President Foued Mebazaâ has temporarily assumed presidential powers and the Constitutional Council announced new presidential elections within 60 days. The chaos and violence, however, have undergone a dramatic surge today: thousands of prisoners have escaped from prisons and many were killed across the country, from Monastir to Madhava, from Sfax to Kairouan, Kasserine in from Bizerte to Kram, the same center of Carthage and Tunis. At Monastir dozens have died in part because of the fire to mattresses in a dorm with assault after a tractor to break through the walls of the enclosure. And a growing fear of looting and destruction, now mainly attributed to men loyal to Ben Ali.
In several suburbs of Tunis - popular and wealthy - and in other parts of the country's population has been holed up in houses and began to organize itself with armed patrols to repel any attacks. After dissolving the government, the interim president today entrusted to the same premier Ghannouchi was asked to form another, ensuring that "no one will be excluded" from the political process and that the next government will be "a government of national unity." Accepted as the demands of the opposition, and in particular of its most recognized leader, Mohammed Nejib Chebbi, the founder of the Democratic Progressive Party, which in 2009 had unsuccessfully tried to show up at the polls as a rival of Ben Ali. But his PTO is outside the Parliament, not having time to protest, presented to the elections. And the same Chebbi not have titles to appear presidential in two months, since the Constitution was amended precisely tailored to its exclusion.
The political debate that will continue tomorrow must therefore find a common consensus not only on the formation of new government, but also regulatory sull'escamotage which enable everyone - it is the PTO's request - to run for president. But the Tunisian political scene reappeared a political subject for a long time excluded: it is Rached Ghannouchi, leader of the moderate Islamic Ennahda, outlawed in Tunisia, from London said he was ready to return home to participate in the EAA national unity government . "The intifada Tunisia has managed to topple the dictatorship," he said from Paris. The country traditionally more secular Maghreb seems therefore, about to return to confront the issue of political Islam, which worries even his neighbors.
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