En pratiquant ce journalisme de maintien de l’ordre, les médias perpétuent la tendance lourde à ne travailler que dans le cadre de limites définies, contribuant, ainsi, à la fabrication d’une forme de totalitarisme lisse qui fait de la propagande au nom de la stabilité démocratique.
As much as Tunisia’s initial, post-independence, political transition was influenced by the extent and nature of economic support from the West, the success of the country’s waning post-revolution «democratic transition» is significantly impacted by the same US and EU powers. A misnomer that diminishes the scope and complexity of international alliances and enmities that it encompasses, the Arab-Israeli conflict bears greatly upon Tunisia’s relations with Western democracies, the primary prospective investors and financial backers of political transition in Tunisia for the past half century.
يبدو أنّ الحملة التي شنّها التونسيون على وزيرة السياحة في تونس امال كربول على خلفية سماحها لعدد من حاملي الجوازات الإسرائيليّة بدخول تونس قد أتت أكلها خصوصا وأنّ اتهامات بالتطبيع مع الكيان الصّهيوني قد طالتها هي وكلّ أعضاء حكومة مهدي جمعة. امال كربول وجدت في حدوث أزمة تمثّلت في احتجاز لاجئين فلسطينيين مارّين عبر تونس إلى ليبيا بمطار تونس قرطاج فرصة سانحة لتصحيح الخطأ السابق وتسجيل نقطة سياسية لصالحها ضدّ من اتّهموها بالتّطبيع.
In the wake of shock and outrage regarding the military tribunal’s recent verdict in the Martyrs of the Revolution Affaire, the ANC seems to have become a veritable scapegoat for the growing pains of democratic transition, its interworkings the perceived epitome of mediocrity, incompetency, inefficiency, and obsoleteness.
With Article 15 on the table for debate, peaking intensity of conflicts in Medenine over the closure of Ras Jedid, and Jomâa’s glowing reflections about his visit to Washington, and widespread public cynism about the volatility and apparent inefficiency of politics and politicians, the past week in politics in Tunisia captures the give-and-take, all-but-constant process that is ‘democratic transition’.
