bilel Posted 2007-01-31

All this stuff is not credible, surveys and studies are certainly carried out by independent institutions not by the tunisian Ministry of Sports that don’t have any institutional value, everything that happens in Tunisia is thought and carried out by the home office under the guidance of Carthage. If you young people feel an aversion to political parties and religion, it’s simple, for the tunisian dictatorship to be credible in its analysis and assertions, our politicians just have to free the country from the censors and from the thousands of police officers, and let the population talk freely about the real subjects and then, we’ll see the outcome.

hasni Posted 2007-01-31

This article is very interesting and the study can be considered as a premise showing that the leaden weight putted on our medias, the censorship of the “cumbersome” internet websites and the non existence of free political parties that don’t call for voting for the unique party is crackling. Results were foreseeable. How can we feel interested in the existing medias, they have the same model, the same momified vocabulary, the same subjects to treat. How can we feel interested in Internet, if we can’t reach all the websites ? When blogs are censored ? How can we feel interested in politics, when there are no opposition parties to take a different line, and it’s like we live in a democracy ? It’s not by using words like “avant-gardism”, “vision” or “change”, or “democratic process going” that things will change. The Tunisian youth did understand this, even if it’s difficult here to reach unformation, and to have hope. Thanks to her !

ابراهيم عبد الصمد Posted 2007-02-02

This is an official study. Meaning that the figures are inaccurate, even so they are a scandal to the Tunisian media and the regime. To whom is the national TV preaching day and night...and to whom are the newspapers writing if 90% are illiterate and cannot read the local papers!

عبد الله الزهاري Posted 2007-02-16

These studies showing aversion of youth to politics is a natural result of our societies governed by totalitarian regimes repressing political activists. But how long will this aversion last? Don’t you think that this aversion is a braise burning under the apparent ash and which will ignite one day.

أسامة محمد Posted 2007-05-29

The choice of relying on young people and involving them in designing the features of the future was one of the major foundations of the method initiated by the Tunisian leadership. The political speech of the president Ben Ali has reflected the fervent presence of the principle of involving young people in formulating their future and the future of Tunisia, as was said by the president in his speech on 7 November 2001 “We involve our young people in building the future, and we prepare them to face its challenges because we believe that the future can be built only by young people and with young people and for young people”. And on the basis of the belief that young people are an asset to raise the challenges of development and building the society of development and modernity, the years of change in Tunisia have registered regular and successive sessions of dialog and counsel spaces with the aim of listening to the concerns and ambitions of Tunisian young people and offering them real and wide opportunities to contribute to drawing national future choices. This was namely reflected by the first consultation with young people organized in 1996 under the slogan “Tunisis of the twenty-first century”. Then the second consultation of young people in 2000 which included a sample of tens of thousands of the sons and daughters of Tunisia in different provinces. This consultation and its results was taken into consideration and many of its recommendations and suggestions were used in preparing the tenth plan of economic and social development in Tunisia (2002-2006). In addition to these periodical stations dedicated to dialog with young people and which were linked to important national stakes and events.. Tunisia has worked on outlining this dialog and defining its channels by offering to young people an important space within different national consultation structures and institutes that are concerned with different facets of development such as the Sector High Councils where young people are represented so that their concerns and aspirations are always present within their trends and recommendations which mainly consist the basis on which are founded development programs and projects prepared by the government after a study and research in the heart of constitutional institutions namely the Economic and Social Council and the Parliament. Associations …spaces for participation and partnership..The concerns and aspirations of young people find great attention and presence within the structures of the civil society and components of association structures which make up today in Tunisia over 8000 associations and organizations especially with the growing involvement of Tunisian young people in joining the association work given the different spaces it offers and different activities satisfying the needs of young generations and their tendencies namely environmental and scientific activities for their role in deepening the feeling of responsibility in young people, enhancing the soul of initiative, enrooting the civil feeling and educating them to the culture of participation.

محمد محمد ذكى سيد Posted 2008-04-07

We want the country to make some progress. I see that there are two main things which have caused young people to have an aversion to politics. They are political life before president Mubarak's initiative and the experience before the presidential elections. It wasn’t presented with adequate profundity for young children to want to participate. It has not entrenched in them a feeling of necessity to have an influential voice in society. As for the second reason, political action is still banned in some of society's institutes which include huge numbers of young people including universities, schools, clubs and so on. This is why young people have chosen not to participate in politics. But things have changed today and society is witnessing social and political changes. Therefore, those concerned should review their cards and organise their ideas. Universities must play its role in urging young people to participate in the political arena. There is the absence of some educational subjects which must be taught to pupils at school which is focused on deepening the political awareness. He doesn’t support the introduction of such programmes because they deepen the awareness and political concept which is only possible through the effective practice by implementing the electoral experience within schools and student unions as well as their effective participation in them. Our experience in teaching subjects won’t create any awareness without effective participation within educational institutes. We should also have real elections such as a youth parliament and strong student and youth union elections which make decisions via questionnaires distributed to young people in Egyptian universities and the university of Al Azhar. In addition, we need to increase the number of young people in youth parliament. The political culture is the responsibility of the society as a whole not just certain folks. This culture is unfortunately absent from all the institutes as there is a shortage in schools and universities. They have totally neglected their role in raising pupils' awareness at an early age and teaching them that they must have a position of authority and a role in decision-making. Besides the role of the media including the radio and TV now that the political content which is presented is void of any media messages addressed to young people about their role in the political life and how they carry out their role towards the country. Greetings from a young man who loves his country.