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Words written on the walls
brandished at arms length, freedom,

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pride, democracy. Words carried along

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by a crowd ready to knock
down anything in its way.

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The voice of the people,
no one could remember

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hearing that in Tunisia since the
country’s independence in 1956.

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Since then not a word. Silence.

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Despite the fierce repression, the popular uprising
removes Ben Ali and his 23 year reign in only 4 weeks.

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It’s the beginning of the Arab spring.
The images which can be seen

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all over the world. second declaration of independence.
The political exiles are welcomed as heroes.

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Like Moncef MARZOUKI, a former opponent who has dreamt
of becoming the president of a democratic trinity

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and also Rached GHANNOUCHI, the leader
of the Islamist party, Ennahdha.

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He too, after 20 years of
exile hopes to gain power.

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But both these men must leave
their personal ambitions aside.

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The streets of Tunisia don’t want a providential
amount. They fear a counter revolution.

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And before choosing a new leader, they’re
calling for their system to be changed.

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They are demanding an assembly

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that will be in charge of drawing up a
new constitution. Like a new beginning,

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a second declaration of independence.
After several weeks of demonstrations,

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the temporary head of government Béji CAïD
ESSEBSI decides in the demonstrators favor.

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Called to the ballot boxes to
elect a constitutional assembly,

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the Tunisians are not only going to choose
their leaders but a model of society.

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Islam, secularism, the status of
women, these first free elections

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are going to seal the fate of a whole population.
This is the story of the birth of a democracy.

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A story that we have filmed
on a day by day basis.

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The social democrat and historical
opponent of Ben Ali, Mustapha BEN JAAFAR

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is one of the first to embark
in the electoral battle.

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He is a modernist and defends the
equal rights of men and women.

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But like the majority of political
leaders in Tunisia, he doesn’t want to

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openly fight on the theme of secularism.
In the name of the country’s unity,

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he prefers to not pronounce in favor of
either the religious or secular clans.

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For him, it’s best not
to open Pandora’s box.

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He is wary of ahead on debate
concerning the place of religion

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which is sure to divide the Tunisians.
Other Democrats on the other hand

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would like to go a lot further.

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Like Saif and (inaudible),
two young man from Kélibia,

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activists for a secular Tunisia.
They had time to for the revolution

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and for them this new constitution means that if there
is going to be a separation between religion and state,

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it’s now or never.

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But these views clash head on with
another sector of the population.

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We met them on the side of a rode

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in the suburbs of Tunis.
During the month of Ramadan,

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a small group of men come every evening
to hand out small gifts to car drivers.

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You couldn’t really call it a campaign
for road safety. Each of these men

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belongs to a religious fundamentalist
association created after the revolution.

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United with a mosque, its aim is
the re-Islamization of the society

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which in its opinion is too secularized.
In the bag,

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there is this small leaflet explaining to
the drivers how to become good Muslims.

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[sil.]

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Religion put back into the heart of
society. One of the country’s main parties

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made this its political project.

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Where its leaders don’t think
twice about making declarations.

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The Qur’an in hand.

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Historical activist on the Ennahda
party, Abdelkarim El Harouni

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have only spent 17 years of his
life in Ben Ali’s presence.

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For the Islamist movement, he is a hero. For
Abdelkarim, the country’s political history

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amounts to a face to face with
his party and the former regime.

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His goal is to appropriate the revolution

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by presenting his movement as the
fiercest opponent of the dictatorship.

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These words are greeted with enthusiasm by the
crowds principally made up of young people.

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This wealthy and well-organized party knew
exactly how to go about seducing them.

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Coaches transported the activists to the
four corners of the country for free.

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The meeting was like some American
show projected on a giant screen.

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The S.D.R. political speeches are soon to be
replaced by a clearly more festive atmosphere.

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[sil.]

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A pop star singing a sweet charming songs

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which are of course Islamically correct has the role of warming
up the audience before the real star of the evening appears.

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Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of Ennahdha.

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On the platform, the elderly
leader presents his movement

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as a modern and democratic party.

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However, at times,

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there are demonstrators
outside their meetings.

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Some have received threats and have had to
hide their faces behind their placards.

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They come to remind the Islamists about their
nefarious past like the attack in 1991,

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in the heart of Tunis.

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For certain observers, Ennahdha’s recent conversion to
democratic values is perhaps just a political strategy.

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Despite the party’s evolution, it is
still the Qur’an that inspires the law.

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Rached GHANNOUCHI, he doesn’t hide the fact that
he wants to make the electorate more Islamic.

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Since the revolution, the
most radical Islamist parties

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continue to be forbidden. Yet,
with its ambiguous discourse,

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Ennahdha has managed to enter the democratic
game. In the post-revolutionary turmoil,

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it is in the name of freedom of
expression that it has made itself known.

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And this is a value that has
become sacred to the Tunisians.

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Even national television an element of the
former propaganda machine had to convert to it.

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And every evening it breaks
all viewing records.

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Salha(ph), A chef in the suburbs of
Tunis, began to watch national television

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a few days after Ben Ali’s departure.

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Shown at prime time,

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the liberation of forbidden speech. The words
of the people who are desperately looking

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to express themselves. For women, it’s
the moment to defend their rights

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and demand total equality with men.

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Because the Islamists are
also out on the streets.

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[sil.]

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Here’s a demonstration as a former provocation.
Public prayer in the heart of Tunis.

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This is never been seen before.

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But it has become forbidden to forbid

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and everybody has their demands. Some
just want better working conditions

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like the city police and
the construction workers.

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Others, like the lawyers, want law reforms.

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And when things don’t go quite as expected in the
streets, people demonstrate against the demonstrations.

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[sil.]

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A multitude of demands give rise
to so many political parties.

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Stemming from the civil society, many were
those who created their own movement.

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Like the writer Abdelaziz BELKHODJA.

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Just after Ben Ali left, all he needed was a
few clicks to set up the Republican Party.

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Restore the ancient Republic of Carthage,

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an original program among so many others.

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Banned or muzzled by the dictatorship, the
Tunisian political parties sprang to life.

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After just a few weeks, the country was even
ready for the Guinness Book of Records.

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111 parties in all. 12 socialist,

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4 liberal, 11 communist.

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Six months following Ben Ali’s departure, the
Tunisian electorate faced with this excessive offer

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no longer knows where to turn.

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In the old town of Sousse, deserted by the
tourists, the tradesmen are perplexed.

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[sil.]

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This plethora of small parties has in fact
only one solution to make themselves known

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and that is to find alliances. At
the end of May, several parties

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as well as independent local figures decided
to unite in order to drop a common list

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at the elections. And the
Democratic modernist poll is born.

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Abdelaziz BELKHODJA is a member.

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[sil.]

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Still ain’t known among the general public, the
poll now needs to win each voice out in the field

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with the voters.

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Like here, in Sidi Bouzid in the heart of the country. This
is the city that has come to symbolize the revolution.

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Here is where it all began
on December 17th, 2010,

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with the immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi.
Seven months later,

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Sidi Bouzid is still a city under pressure. Just
the previous day there was a violent demonstration

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involving young people and the police.

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After the death of this young protester,

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a curfew was enforced. For
Makram and his friends,

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nothing has changed since the revolution.
Neither the repression,

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nor the way the media
portrays the city’s youth.

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Far from the capital and the seaside resorts,
here there is no industry and no tourism.

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Only thousands of unemployed graduates.
Societies rejects,

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his frustration has not disappeared despite
the revolution quite the opposite.

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The Democratic Modernist Poll organizes a meeting to speak to
these young people. But things don’t quite work out as planned.

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A group of young people tried
to prevent the meeting

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from taking place. For them, anything
that comes from Tunis is suspicious

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starting with political parties which they
suspect are in the pay of the former regime.

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Faced with this unexpected situation

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the leaders of the poll
decide to let them speak.

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It is the underprivileged youth that
wants to upset the establishment.

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[sil.]

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On that day, the only
thing that is unanimous

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is the national anthem.

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For these young people who
grew up with the dictatorship,

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it’s difficult to believe in political
party speeches. In some neighborhoods,

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only the populist program of the
Islamists manages to find an echo.

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If they want to be heard, the other groups
must imperatively take a prominent position.

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We’re in Sidi Hsin, a few
kilometers from Tunis.

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In this problem area the young people
have burnt down the police headquarters.

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Here, faced with Ennahdha,

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a single modernist party is campaigning in the
field. The Progressive Democratic Party, or PDP.

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Like every Sunday,

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(inaudible) hands out leaflets
with other activists.

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[sil.]

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PDP was its charismatic
leader appears as the bastion

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against the Islamists. This centrist party

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has an asset that it is aiming to put
forward to the popular electorate.

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Its long existence in the
Tennessean political landscape.

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The party was able to seduce young people like
(inaudible). A PDP activist for seven years,

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he has attended all the demonstrations against
Ben Ali. While the campaign is just beginning,

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the Tunisian voters discover something that didn’t
exist during the dictatorship. Opinion polls.

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[non-English narration]

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These are surveys in which the wealthiest party and the one
that was given the most media coverage stood out, Ennahdha.

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There is one party, however,

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that is more important than all the others
representing almost 50% of the Tunisians.

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The one of the non-voters
and floating voters.

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To help the electorate make their choice different
associations try to inform the Tunisians about issues

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concerning the ballot. After a
day’s work in this cable factory,

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some of the workers go to the meeting organized
by the association, \"The Citizen Bus.\"

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As summer draws to an end

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and after the worst tourist season
ever in the country’s history,

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the Arab spring already seems to be a thing
of the past. The Tunisians are caught between

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two contradictory feelings. The freedom gained doesn’t
help them forget the difficulties of daily life.

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We meet Salha(ph) once again
in the suburbs of Tunis.

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Following a three months of delay in the
elections like many of her compatriots,

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she’s hoping for a rapid
return to stability.

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In order to convince the
many undecided voters,

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Ennahdha plays the role of champion
in the fight against corruption.

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Rached Ghannouchi centres his discourse around
the themes that seduce working class voters

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such as morals and purchasing power.

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The party has the sense of performance. For
example, to appear close to the people’s concerns,

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it pays for collective weddings
for those less fortunate.

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Officially, it’s simply an
act of community service.

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The Islamist party close hot and cold.

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Even though it had done everything it could
to be admitted into the High Commission,

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the organization in charge of preparing the elections in the end it
decides overnight to leave this assembly in order to destabilize.

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[sil.]

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Faced with this strategy of
rapture and destabilisation,

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the modernist camp tries to respond
by attacking their opponents program.

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Composers of the movements,
the Islamised Camp hopes to

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seduce certain modernists while at the same
time reassuring it’s more radical wing.

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Two conceptions of the society confront
each other but the modernist parties

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aren’t able to define a common strategy.
They are divided on one issue in particular,

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which attitude should they adopt with regards
to the former executives of the RCD?

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The previous unique party like Mohamed
JEGHAM, a former minister under Ben Ali

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who created his movement
after the revolution.

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For many Tunisians,

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there is no question of reinstating those who
used to work for Ben Ali. They suspect them of

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preparing via the ballot a counter-revolution.
An article from the electoral courters voted

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which in theory prevents them
from running for election.

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Not all the leaders share
this point of view, however.

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For Ahmed Néjib Chebbi of the PDP,

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the rehabilitation of the former RCD
needs to be considered case by case.

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Faced with the united Islamists,

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the modernist camp enters the
elections in a disorganized manner.

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Dozens of small parties may gain votes and
not have a single seat in the assembly.

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Divided on the fundamental issues
as they are with their strategy,

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the majority of the modernist leaders put off
the question of eight crucial of an alliance.

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Ennahdha’s strategy
contributed to the discord

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among the modernists. Out of
their own political interests,

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some leaders like Moncef Marzouki even
initiate a rapprochement with the Islamists.

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One month before the elections, the polls announced
between 55 and over 80 seats for Ennahdha

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out of 217 in the assembly.

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For the modernist parties
largely outstripped,

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the official campaign is their
last hope to reverse the trend.

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At last, 21 days. The militants of Ettakatol,
Mustapha Ben Jaafar’s social democrat party

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cover the different areas.

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But everywhere they go,
they have other activists

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on their heels.

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In order to reassure the voters and the wealthier
districts, Ennahdha chose to put this woman to the fore

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in one of Tunis’s electoral districts.
Out of the 33 districts in the country,

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she is one of the only two women chief candidates of the
Islamist party with a unique status in the Arab world

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granted since the country’s independence in 1956,
Tunisian women are one of the keys of the ballot.

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[sil.]

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To encourage women to participate in the vote, the
Democratic Womens Association produce this short film.

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So that each voice can express itself,

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(inaudible)needs to make sure
that the elections run smoothly.

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A few days before the vote in the offices of
the independent authorities for the elections,

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he has just received an object that didn’t exist
under the former regime. To convince the population

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to go out and vote, the elections
promised to be exemplary.

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Just a few days before the vote, there is an increasing
number of Tunisians interested in the election.

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(inaudible) still hasn’t made up his
mind but that day, a debate on the radio

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is going to make him more inclined to favor the
Islamists. Everyone in Tunisia is talking about it.

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It’s the Nessma affair.

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A representative Ennahda rises
up against the programming of

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the film Persepolis on the television.
He considers it injurious to Islam.

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Tracing him is a modernist leader.

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The film shows God in the form of a human
being which is forbidden by Islam.

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A few days before the elections, several hundred
Salafist attacked the television channel

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and threw a petrol bomb
at its directors house.

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Ennahdha condemns this violence
after having sparked things off.

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By cleverly exploiting this affair,
Ennahdha succeeded in presenting itself

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as the defender of the Tunisian identity.
On the eve of the poll,

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the Islamist party still managed
to increase its electorate.

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In her neighbourhood, Salha(ph)
was keen to be the first to vote.

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Like her throughout the day, the Tunisian
people are thronging to the polls.

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On this historical day, the participation
figures are clearly higher than expected.

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Ahmed Néjib Chebbi of the PDP

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and Mustapha Ben Jaafar of Ettakatol show
confidence among their fellow citizens.

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Yet, behind the appropriate smiles, they know that
the campaign’s dynamic is not in their favor.

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There’s already no doubt
about the Islamists upsurge.

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It’s the extent of it that
will come as a surprise.

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[sil.]

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While the votes are being counted the
trend is going to become apparent

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in just a few minutes.

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[sil.]

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Only two parties hold out
against the Islamist wave.

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[sil.]

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With more than 40% of the votes, the Islamists
are largely the winners of the election.

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With 90 out of 217 seats at the assembly

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they will run the provisional government.

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And while the Islamists get
free reign to their joy,

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in the modernist camp is now
time for deception and anger.

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Some even launch accusations of fraud.

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But for the modernists,
it’s not a total defeat.

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Although divided they also obtain around
40% of the seats in the assembly.

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Ennahdha will have to accept compromises
and alliances with some of them.

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Despite the Islamist victory,
Tunisia today continues to pursue

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a dangerous path albeit
necessary that of democracy.

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[sil.]