Can an illiterate dictator lead a literate people?

For those who don’t know Tunisia, just remember that it is just a small country in the northern part of Africa. Famous for being a tourist resort to many tourists from Europe and the Americas. Formerly it was known as the bread basket of the Roman Empire. Now it is the land of the jobless , the poor, and the oppressed literate population. Unlike their president , Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, most Tunisians are well-educated and politically aware. This fact can be clearly seen when talking to a common Tunisian man or woman about any subject related to world events, economic issues or even scientific advances . This legacy was due to the fact that President Habib Bourguiba gave great importance to education in this small country.
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali took power after the infamous medico-legal coup that took place five weeks after becoming head of the government, he had President Bourguiba declared medically unfit for the duties of the office and assumed the presidency on 7 November 1987. Many Tunisians believe that he never completed even a high school education.
This can be clearly seen in some of his handwritten speeches that were leaked during his first term in office as president. Even worse, his pronunciation of the Arabic language looks slobbish and awkward. This is due to the fact that Tunisian people think that the head of their state should be eloquent and literate because of the sacredness of the Arabic language. Ben Ali was first married to Naima Kefi, the daughter of General Kefi, Tunisia's first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and had three daughters ; he divorced her in 1992 and married Leila Trabelsi, whom he met when he was President Habib Bourguiba's minister of the Interior. His second wife belongs to the Trabelsi family. This family controls much of the business sector in the country. They use all means to plunder the great resources of the country. They even control the police, the judiciary, customs as well as most sectors of the economy. They conduct a mafia policy in the country.
Whoever stands against them, in any field, will be court-martialled or put into prison without trial, if they don’t bury him/her alive !!!
Why is this family so powerful and influential in the Tunisian political life? One can say, history repeats itself. This is the same atmosphere that was prevailing before the infamous medico-legal coup in Habib Bourguiba’s era. Ben Ali, the actual president, cannot control anything in the country. He is medically unfit to govern. So the Trabelsi family took the opportunity to rule in his name, especially if we consider him as a savior from the Habib Bourguiba’s totalitarian regime. In this way we can say that the dictator, who is the worst despot Tunisia has ever known in its 3000 years history, is just a puppet whose strings are in the hands of his wife’s family. This corrupt regime is always telling European countries that it is practising a local democracy, however, although Freedom of the press is officially guaranteed and condoned, human rights organization Reporters Sans Frontieres states that "Tunisians have no access to independent news in the local media and the press, radio, TV and the Internet is under the president’s control. Journalists and media are actively discouraged from being more independent by means of bureaucratic harassment, advertising boycotts and police violence.
President Ben Ali is considered by some organizations as enemy number one of the free press in the world. Most famous video-based websites such as Youtube or Dailymotion are blocked in Tunisia . Blogging is also controlled. Why is such a corrupt regime conducting an aggressive assault against media and free press? The truth lies behind its ignorance of the importance of such means to promote the country’s image in the outside world to bring more important investments hence better job opportunities for a very motivated and educated youth.
Besides that , “ nothing comes out of nothing”, how can we expect an illiterate president to lead three well-educated generations to a better future?!!! Really I don’t believe in him and I will never vote for such an oppressing regime.