Et si on mettait la Tunisie à l’abri des ingérences de la France ?
Let Tunisia build a democracy, free from French interference
| Sami Brahem
The Guardian
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/17/tunisia-needs-time-democracy-free-french
Things came to a head after a discussion on TV about the assassination of an opposition leader, Chokri Belaid. The French interior minister, Manuel Valls, declared that Tunisia was not a model for the Arab spring because of its “Islamic fascist dictatorship” led by the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists, which posed a threat to rights and freedoms in a country that was only a two-hour flight from France. He added that France could not condone this, and would support the secularists and modernists against the obscurantists.
Valls’s remarks coincided with a political campaign inside the country that has taken advantage of Belaid’s assassination to call for toppling the elected government and putting in its place an unelected body. Former prime minister Beji Caid-Essebsi has even called for the dissolution of the elected national constituent assembly, on the basis that it has lost its legitimacy, so as to allow a “council of experts” to assume the role of drafting the nation’s constitution.