Tunisia, un anno dopo… un paradigma di modernità a rischio. A cura di Raoudha Guemara, Yvonne Fracassetti e Michele Brondino (original) (raw)

Tunisia, pioneer of the Arabic spring, with a constitutional past and the basis of a modern state, is the only Arabic country which begun a renewal in society and a modernization of institutions in order to evolve towards a democratic model of society. This renewal was stopped by the regime of Ben Ali, so democracy was greatly demanded by the revolt which took place in January 2011. The first free elections, in October 2011, in a chaotic and uncertain post-revolutionary climate, support an identity ballot for order giving power to the Islamics of Ennahda that are taking apart piece by piece the building of the modern state inherited from Bourguiba, while declaring themselves opened to a parliamentarian and democratic system. The evolution of Tunisia today stands like a paradigm all over the Arab-Muslim world confronted to fundamental choices about modernity. Neither inner pressures nor international positions for the status quo are supporting the democratic transition.