Liberation: The Ben Ali of Tunisia has a family resemblance. THE TUNISIAN
Tunisia Ben Ali has a family resemblance Before the presidential review of clans that monopolize power in Tunis. Thursday, September 10, 2009
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AYAD Christophe
Special Envoy - Tunis.
This is not a rally but a family reunion. Tonight, the seven candidates of the ruling Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD) for the 2nd legislative district of Tunis animate an election rally in Kram, a suburb of Tunis. Afif Chiboub Topping the list warms the room: "Come on, all up for Ben Ali" The audience rose as one man: "By our blood, our souls we defend you, O Zine!" Afif Chiboub, 48, member for four legislatures and senior vice president of the Assembly for six years, is also and especially the brother of the President's son. At the end of his speech, he gave the floor to Najet Trabelsi, wife Nouri. A little woman has a speech at the microphone laborious, too high for her. Every time she mentions the name of the President, the room gets up to chant a slogan in his glory. To the great misfortune of the speaker, who sees his painful exercise of speech extend all. She concluded the meeting by the national anthem. Besides his career as a veteran activist from the "Change" the "medical coup" in which Ben Ali ousted Bourguiba in 1987 Najet Trabelsi is a cousin of Ben Ali's second wife, Leila Trabelsi. "It's really a coincidence," says a running mate uncomfortable. "It has no influence, adds Afif Chiboub. Evidence, precisely at the last congress of the RCD, I was not reelected to the Central Committee. "
" The family is not interested in the policy "
Failing true democratic game, the Tunisians are reduced to bet on the ups and downs of the clans surrounding Ben Ali. "It's like Lotto, it makes the time pass even if you gain nothing," says an academic. For the latest news, Chiboub be losing momentum and Trabelsi would rain or shine. "Ben Ali's family is not interested in politics, says one political analyst. Their only concern is business. Interested in politics only insofar as it allows them to do more business. "But one of his colleagues added:" Ben Ali has always rested on a secret power. Until 1992, Kamel was Eltayef who held the upper hand. "The businessman, a close friend of the President, was dismissed for opposing the marriage of the latter with his second wife, Leila Trabelsi, a hairdresser met in the mid 80s, before the Change. "Then Chiboub have taken the place of Eltayef. They are the ones who made and unmade ministers. From 1999 they were supplanted by Trabelsi. "Leila has ten brothers and sisters, including the famous Belhassen, considered the leader of the clan.
Three major clans revolve around Ben Ali, with many sub-clans and alliances: that of Chiboub, one of ten brothers and sisters of Ben Ali and finally that of Trabelsi. From his first marriage to Naima Kefi, daughter of the general who has spent his entire career, Ben Ali had three daughters. The eldest, Ghazoua, is married to Slim Zarrouk, a businessman specializing in the acquisition of privatized enterprises. "They are in discreet," says an expert. The second daughter, Dorsaf, a hedonist with Slim Chiboub, a former handball player who took the head of Esperance Sportive de Tunis, the largest football club in the country, he has a war machine politico-sports. Slim and his brother Afif, MP, specialize in commissions on large state contracts. The third daughter of the first marriage, Cyrine, just married Marwan Mabrouk, scion of another family. Since then, cases of it are still thriving more: Mabrouk just put his hand on the distribution company Fiat and Mercedes, recently privatized, and will join the company providing Internet access the young wife. The President thought coldly at Slim Chiboub from a dispute that goes back two years, the recent application of the laws Afif, as head of the list moreover, has been interpreted as a sign that the clan Chiboub definitely not "out". "Nobody is ever completely ruled out, said one diplomat. Is the power of Ben Ali: you can always fall or bounce. He referee at all times. "
Clan brothers and sisters is considered" the least influential and most rogue "according to one observer. They specialize in smuggling, customs fraud and racketeering tax. They divided the area of Tunis, Monastir, Hammamet and Sousse (the cradle of the family). Since the death of Moncef, prosecuted in France a few years ago as part of "Couscous Connection" drug trafficking to scale, this clan has more "representative". Moncef's son, Sofia, is too young. He married a daughter of Hedi Jilani, the head of the Utica, Medef Tunisia. Cautious and circumspect, Jilani, scion of a bourgeois family in Tunis, has married another of her daughters Belhassen Trabelsi, then the other clan. He was rewarded for his wisdom through a spot on the list for the RCD in the 1st legislative district of Tunis. At the interface between power and business, Hedi Jilani day as representing the interests of employers to control their irritation with the appetite of the family.
A fortune built on credit
According to all Tunisians, Trabelsi, they "are in everything." As the rich, they pay big. The airline and hotel Carthago, the (only) radio station, Mosaic, distribution of computer hardware and even the giant of household equipment (household appliances, audio visual, furniture ...) and consumer credit, Batam , went bankrupt two years ago, etc.. Impossible to verify. One thing is certain: Trabelsi had no money, they built their fortune on credit. The other method
Trabelsi is on loan to buy cheap land unbuildable. Like magic, a decree amends the classification soon after and the investor is happy tumbling resale. Recently, Nesrine Ben Ali fiance, one of the two daughters he had with Leila, aged 18, with Sofiane Matri, grand-son of an officer who tried to overthrow Bourguiba in 1962. The young man had already bought ENNAKL, the public company responsible for marketing Audi and Volkswagen. There is finally, at the most basic level, the privileges. Najet Trabelsi, a cousin candidate for deputy, director of the hospital Khayreddine Tunis would be a nurse ... Meteoric career which stirs admiration, jealousy and envy in the popular and middle classes who live precarious every day.
Brake investment
This systematic bleeding of the country is beginning to pose serious problems. Some economists see it as one of the causes of the slowdown in investment. In business, nobody dares to complain too loudly. "This is a problem but it never reached an unbearable level, it is still not in Syria," cautions a young entrepreneur, who admits to have divided its business into small companies, "Not to attract attention." It concludes with a quip: "In Tunisia, there are four chances. We are a homogenous country, without regionalism or communalism, we had Bourguiba, there was no oil, and Ben Ali has no male heir ... "
AYAD Christophe
Liberation from 23/10 / 2004
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