04/08/1999 Agence Europe

Olivier Dupuis, elected member on the Lista Bonino at the European Parliament, has, further to the condemnation of Abderraouf Chammari, brother of the exiled opposition member Khémais Chammari, denounced the "authoritarian slide" of the government in Tunis and the "silence and lack of action on the part of European authorities" in this connection. Unlike Morocco and Algeria which, "in contexts that are far more difficult and with a thousand contradictions, have made and continue to make decisive steps forward in the process for democratic construction", Tunisia betrays the promises of democratisation made ten years ago by President Ben Ali, says the MEP.