The Call for Tunisia features a broad
spectrum of former regime officials together with secular liberals. The former regime officials, or RCDists (from
the Constitutional Democratic Rally), were excluded from running in the
last elections and see in the new initiative a chance to revive their political
prospects. (There was no such cleansing of the actual government administrations
-- only positions in the Constituent Assembly). These officials and their
supporters oftentimes criticize the current government as incompetent and unable to
manage the complexity of government. They try to deflect criticisms of the
rampant corruption and stasi-like police state
of the past, by pointing to the (very real) progress achieved under Bourguiba
and Ben Ali. They cite statistics on women's rights, improvements in education,
and infrastructure development, and they compare Tunisia with its neighbors in
the Maghreb and throughout Africa. Their motives are clear -- keep the good and
throw out the bad of the former regime.
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