Tunisia, Egypt and Libya : the learning of democracy

The Arab Spring and all its events that occured since December 2010 led to a totaly new situation in Tunisia, Egypt and more recently Libya. From now on these three countries and their citizens have the possibility to vote for their President. Tunisia voted last Sunday and seem to have elected moderate Islamists party Ennahdha.

Gaddafi's fall last week also opened the way to democracy. We hear and listen in every single media that these countries will have to do the learning of democracy. And this is what it's all about : democracy is not innate. This is the result of centuries of (r)evolution and fights.

So tyrants being defeated doesn't mean the emergence of democracy. This is the new governments duty to work altogether toward freedom, liberty, equality and justice. In Tunisia, Ben Ali's fall didn't erase terror, exactions and relative liberty to think different. Some former Ben Ali's Ministers are still engaged in the Tunisian political field and won't give up.

It really is interesting to observe how democracy is seen by the citizens of these new free countries. This is the silent after the storm, the sun showing up again. But democracy is not the answer in itself. Democracy is an everyday fight. And if Tunisia, Egypt and Libya want to have justice and liberty they have not to be to impatient but to slowly and surely build a new Nation.