Well, as far as I see, it seems to be a charming, naïf initiative, but very
interesting anyway. Destour has a local and not easy to translate meaning. I
think it means both a political party involved in Tunis independence and
also an aspirtation to become a constitutional country. I don't really know
if this initiative is lead by members or supporters of the former Destourist
Socialist Party.
Anyway, the draft seems to be like an old constitutional text shown in their
wiki in order to take it as an starting point. If I were to launch such an
idea, I also shall put some discussion about political, constitutional and
comparative law, and not just a draft. This worries me a little bit.
But the statement that the purpose of this initiative is *exerting your
citicenship* by taking part in the new constitution discussion and
developement is a very inspirating one.
2011/4/2 Dror Kamir <dqamir(a)bezeqint.net>
Hello,
I found this link *http://destour.org *on the Wikipedia-ar mailing list,
and thought it might interest people who don't speak Arabic as well.
This is a Wiki inviting Tunisian citizens to write the country's new
constitution the Wiki way. The site is entirely in Arabic and it
includes a constitution draft, which the Tunisian public is supposed to
change and amend collaboratively. According to their "about", this is an
initiative of the Tunisian Internet Association (/Jam'iyat Tunis
lil-Internet/), which is a non-official non-profit Tunisian
organization. According to them, the project is run by volunteers.
To be honest, I don't give much chance to this initiative, but it is an
interesting development nonetheless. As far as I remember, Florence told
me about similar initiative in France by the French government, but it
seems to be the first of its kind in the Arab world. Perhaps the close
cultural ties between Tunisia and France played a role here, but this is
nothing more than a speculation.
Dror K
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