post revolutionary Tunisia

I have long been fascinated by western democracies and I envied them too for the freedom they enjoy and the respect of the citizen. And have always dreamt of something of the type in my country. But now my dream is a bit beyond that. I dream of a democracy that really empower the people and not few hundreds who alternate between the government and the shadow government accusing one an other and the goal is either continue in power or take power. These people whose main objective is the power need to be controlled one way or an other. There should be a third party which is neutral and doesn’t intend to be in power. You may say the media can play this role but ther’s no guarantee as it’s not always neutral and can be manipulated by the government, the rich, lobbies...etc.

The real opposition should be national rather than parliamentary that is in the hands of the citizens. We are experementing this in Tunisia. no job is secure in the government today and ministers fear interviews in the media because they have turned in what may be called “job interviews” . some of them failed their job interviews and were fired.

People are much more politicized than ever before. these days, in tunisia every measure taken by the government is carefully scrutinized by people in coffees, at work.. and on the web. Views of independent scholars and experienced people are always respected. there’s no place for opportunists, hypocrite and liers . People are very intelligent and it’s not difficult to discover these. Politicians are evaluated by their history first(struggle) and or their experience. once admitted as ministers, the measures they take become the only criteria of evaluation.

In post revolutionary Tunisia ,the power is still in the hands of the people and do not intend to give it all to anybody be it an institution or an individual. these days, we are delegating some powers to judges as we are backing them for their assertion of independence. The decision to dissolve the ex-ruling party by the court was backed by people outside the court and the decision to dissolve the committee oppointed by the interim president to deal with corruption is being supported by people as we the people we don’t want to delegate the powers of the courts to committees no matter how clean its members are(and they are clean people ) and no matter who appointed its members be it the interim president himself.

I’m not worrying if there will be no opposition at all in future parlaiaments. And i prefer that the “national opposition” should always remain national in the hands of cyber activists along with scholars..unions and civil associations.

To outsiders i say if you read a minister resigned, be sure “it’s not political unsettlement” , but because he/she is unfit for the job.