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Tunisia: Like a Powder Keg

By on May 11, 2011
The information released by the former minister of interior, Rajhi Farhat, has set the fire to the powder. The latter has referred to a “conspiracy”, accusing the army and the transitional government to prepare a coup in the event of an Islamist Nahda party’s victory at the next election of the Constituent Assembly.

That was enough to convince the Tunisians to take again the streets demanding the resignation of the interim government. These events have led to violent clashes between protestors and the security forces, quickly followed by acts of vandalism and looting. These new clash has pushed the government to reinstate the curfew in the Capital, Tunis, and in several other cities. Based on this unstable climate, analysts are wondering who really do enjoy these troubles. Anyway Tunisia is far from being stable. The manipulators, who use the ambitious youth hardly hit by unemployment and wanting everything right away, are willing to outbid everything, even push the country back into the abyss of a new social shock and especially on the eve of a ballot that aims to put Tunisia on the right track, and built a new Tunisia for all the Tunisians. But building takes time, and a legitimate government must go through a process that exactly needs time and cannot succeed in a short time, sadly quiet enough to sow uncertainty, which carries all the dangers.

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