Wednesday, January 26, 2011
We have seen the Tunisian President Ben Ali to flee by air: none sorry. His presidency had not been able to evolve Tunisia in a decent democracy.
Indeed, a one-party regime, the son of the national revolution of Bourguiba, Ben Ali was formally promoted to the first multiparty elections (1994) and the first multi-candidate presidential elections (1999) and finally a bicameral parliamentary system (2002), but all, in substance, had been under a continuous regime, and results for the majority party too close to 90% in order to be credible.
Indeed, a one-party regime, the son of the national revolution of Bourguiba, Ben Ali was formally promoted to the first multiparty elections (1994) and the first multi-candidate presidential elections (1999) and finally a bicameral parliamentary system (2002), but all, in substance, had been under a continuous regime, and results for the majority party too close to 90% in order to be credible.
[...] For Europe, for Italy, and also to the Socialist International and European socialism, these lessons are: that is not enough to give his confidence to a regime, "secular", as if the Arab people not entitled to the normal standards of democracy on the other side of the Mediterranean, whereas the legal form of democracy can not be separated from its substance (real freedom, real equality, rights and transparency); that the path reforms will be slow and laborious, but in twenty years if nothing happens, and everything remains as it was more or less, reforms are not a bit 'slow, but keeping very still. read more
source: www.avantidelladomenica.it
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