Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Tunisia. The secularists have it

Scontento in curva sud: a destra non si può urlacchiare di piacevole 
terrore alla prospettiva della prossima conquista del pianeta (con 
conseguente sterminio di "tutti gli altri") da parte degli islamisti, né 
si può cogliere l'occasione per esercitarsi nel consueto razzismo 
anti-islamico, e a "sinistra" (NB le "") non si può urlacchiare contro 
il nazismo americano :) che radicalizza e arma gli islamisti. Certo che 
la realtà è davvero una gran puttana, alle volte... :)
 
http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21629480-nidaa-tounes-resoundingly-beats-islamist-nahda-party-secularists-have-it
 
 
The secularists have it
 
IN A region gripped by jihadist violence, civil war and the return of 
authoritarian rule, Tunisia’s parliamentary election on October 26th was 
an exception on many counts. Alone among the countries that saw popular 
revolts in the “Arab Spring” of 2011, it has remained on a path to 
democracy. Seemingly against the trend of Arab politics, voters 
inflicted a firm rebuke on Islamists and instead gave victory to the 
secularist coalition known as Nidaa Tounes. And the defeated Islamists 
of the Nahda party bowed peacefully before the verdict. A stint out of 
power, said its leader, Rached Ghannouchi, could be salutary.
 
Nidaa Tounes (“Tunisian Call”) won 85 of the 217 seats in parliament, 
against 69 for Nahda (“Awakening”). Nahda can still count on loyalists 
nationwide and has an organisational reach that is envied by other 
parties. Nevertheless, voters have been unimpressed by the Islamists’ 
two years at the helm of government, in 2012–13, particularly its 
inability to pull the economy out of stagnation and its failure to quash 
the emergence of violent jihadism. Senior Nahda figures concede that the 
job of running the country proved to be harder than they had expected.
 
Though often fractious and tainted by the presence of members of the 
ancien régime of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the ex-president overthrown by 
a revolt in January 2011, Nidaa Tounes was helped to victory by the 
popularity of its leader, Beji Caid Sebsi. Three times a minister, he 
emerged from retirement in 2011 as a reassuring figure and headed the 
interim government that handed over to the Nahda-led coalition at the 
end of that year. Rattled by the army coup that deposed Egypt’s Islamist 
president, Nahda handed power to a technocratic government in January, 
after two political assassinations raised tensions. It also softened the 
Islamist flavour of the proposed new constitution.
 
Nahda would like to join a coalition under Nidaa Tounes, which has not 
yet made its intentions clear. The secularists could put together a 
government with smaller factions, albeit a rather fragile one. Moreover, 
opposition to Islamists is part of the raison d’être of Nidaa Tounes. 
The party accuses the former Nahda-led government of having undermined 
the separation of religion and state that was laid down by Habib 
Bourguiba, Tunisia’s first post-independence president. Some admire the 
Egyptian army’s suppression of Islamists.
 
Beyond the economy and the balance between secularism and Islam, 
security has been an important issue. Many Tunisians reckon that the 
Nahda-led coalition government was culpably slow in responding to the 
spread of jihadist ideology in mosques after the fall of Mr Ben Ali. 
Just days before the election, a shoot-out with alleged jihadists left 
one policemen and six others dead (five women among them). The presence 
of armed national guardsmen and soldiers outside polling stations made 
for a more sombre mood than the celebratory post-revolutionary election 
three years ago.
 
Nidaa Tounes still struggles to shake off claims that it represents an 
attempt by members of the previous ruling party, the Constitutional 
Democratic Rally (RCD), to regain influence. In what was in effect a 
single-party state, the RCD built clientelistic relations running from 
taxi-drivers to corner-shop owners, lawyers, senior civil servants 
and—importantly for its funding—business people. Although the RCD as an 
organisation is long dead, these networks may have played a role on 
polling day.
 
A government is unlikely to be formed before Tunisians return to the 
polls to elect a new president on November 23rd. The new constitution 
passed in January gives more powers to the prime minister and 
parliament, now produced by genuine elections, rather than the 
president. Given that Mr Caid Sebsi, 88 next month, is the front-runner 
to get the job (Nahda is not fielding a candidate), it is still unclear 
who will become prime minister.
 
One possibility would be to ask the popular outgoing technocrat, Mehdi 
Jomaa, to form another government. He has not entirely ruled out the 
prospect.
-- 
Namib
.....
There's a blaze of light in every word (Leonard Cohen)

 anti-islamico, e a "sinistra" (NB le "") 
 
che a destra non metti. Eppure nei commentatori di destra che ho letto (nessuno italiano, btw) vedo solo un gran sollievo. 
Sara' una faccenda di religione? 

 Sara' una faccenda di religione?
 
La destra è una religione?! :)
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 Ho parlato 
 
guarda, e' davvero interessante.

 aha.
 
Appassionante commento.
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