'Springtime for democracy,' says Tunisian opposition leader

Fri, 28 Jan 2011

Berlin - Hosny Mubarak will not last as Egypt's president, and the "springtime for democracy" has reached the Arab world, a Tunisian opposition leader, Moncef Marzouki, said on German radio Friday.

"Next year Egypt will have a new president, and it won't be Mubarak or his son," said Marzouki, speaking in French. The interview was broadcast on Deutschlandfunk, the German national radio station.

"After the fall of the communist dictatorships, the Arab nationalist dictatorships are collapsing one after another," he said, partly thanks to the new social networks on the internet.

"Thanks to social networks, the Arab world is undergoing a springtime of democracy."

Marzouk, 65, is a professor of medicine and heads the Congress of the Republican Party, a group that was banned under ousted president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. He said he would run for public office. In the past, he has been chairman of the Tunisian Human Rights League.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/364708,democracy-tunisian-opposition-leader.html.