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   لاينمىنىلا 2011-4-11

   Tunisians are courageous.

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   MOHAMED 2011-2-17

   The Tunisians are demanding a parliament before a president. The people are demanding constitutional control over the legislative and executive powers. They are demanding four or five parties elected in transparency by their own means and who answer to their electors in order to control the executive. They are demanding a press that is free of all rigging, the is spontaneous by way of the citizenry and that organises debates on subjects that interest those who are thinker and not debates for intellectuals who are thirsty to show off their ego and narcissism for their own cult of personality. And why all of this? It is so that out of the zones of poverty and exclusion will appear the intelligence of all Tunisians and not the inverse! How? We will do this by practicing our profession without corrupting or being corrupted. This agenda seems to me to be the most urgent at during this stage of getting off to a good start! Others may follow later.

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   BEN 2011-2-7

   Let us be clear, Mohamed Ghannouchi is still not Pétain. Ben Ali’s regime inherited a single part that belonged to the Socialist International and had the support of the army. The international political class accommodated this regime. In this scenario, what could Ghannouchi, a civilian, do besides round the corners? He is offering his experience and his skills to his country because the change is allowing him to do so. Judge him by his present actions and their results in this time of transition. That is my opinion.

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   Essid 2011-2-6

   Immediately upon reading the subtitle to this article, I knew I was in for some extreme nonsense. “Even though the new administration is devoid of faces from the old guard, Tunisians are reserving judgment.” Hilarious. Then, what irony, the next line begins with “Interim President Fouad Mebazza …” Hmmm, where have I heard that name before. Oh, I remember: Mebazza was Speaker of Parliament under Ben Ali. Ghannouchi, the current prime minister, is the former Minister of the Interior. Ounais, the current Minister of Foreign Affairs, was an ambassador. Farhat Rajhi, the current Minister of the Interior, was the prosecutor general. Ahmed Ibrahim was the head of the fictional opposition. (You remember, Ben Ali invented an opposition in order to make himself appear democratic and then he gave the seats out in exchange for obedience.) “Members of Ben Ali’s Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) party are gone.” I believe that the journalist must not share the same definition of the word “gone” as me. To me, “gone” would mean that they no longer have an office in the government. But, to the author, Iheb Ettounsi, “gone” means that they decided to quit calling themselves “members of the RCD”, but they are still in the government. This is the same as saying, “There are no murderers in the government.” “Why?” “Because they do not call themselves murderers anymore.” And, I am not exaggerating at all with this analogy. Ghannouchi is responsible for the murder of more than one person. And, I have no doubt in saying that Rajhi is also a murderer, because I am positive that at least one person had to die as a consequence of his wrongful prosecutions if not as a consequence of his criminal attack on the Kasbah.

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   محمد 2011-2-5

   No, no, no, no to being quiet about the right!

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   Anonymous 2011-2-4

   The subtitle to this article is an insult to common sense. You really have to be ignorant of the meaning of the word “shame” to dare to say, “… the new administration is devoid of faces from the old guard …” Has the author of this article been living on Mars or in Tunisia? Does he not know that Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi is a typical product of the old guard and that he took up quarters not only with the dictator Ben Ali, whom he served head hung low, but also his predecessor Bourguiba, who introduced Tunisia to electoral fraud and torture? Ben Ali was Bourguiba’s pupil and Ghannouchi was his student. And wasn’t Jouini a minister in the last government under Ben Ali? And could Minister of Foreign Affairs Ounaiss have become Bourguiba’s and then Ben Ali’s ambassador for so many years without being a member of their party? And did not former Communist Ahmed Ibrahim belong to the old guard? He endorsed Ben Ali’s plot to create a subservient opposition and took a seat in Parliament thanks to the free offices Ben Ali handed out. He is always ready to compromise and change his colours. I will limit myself to these few examples and the hope that in the future Magharebia will place more attention to the quality of its articles so as to avoid giving us articles with no quality, in bad faith and without content. Thank you. I would like to preserve my esteem for Magharebia, which has offered an undeniable space for free speech during these recent years.

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