Tunisia: Promoting democracy and political participation
Democracy means the power of traditional people's decisions. Political scientists have often defined democracy as the political system in which the people exercise the power that it holds sovereignty. This implies an interaction between rulers and ruled. In the Tunisian national context, democracy comes in two forms. Direct democracy in the sense that there are no intermediaries between the state or rather the government and citizens. They participate through dialogic democracy to make major policy affecting the future of the country. Representative democracy that circumscribes the role of the people to elect its members.
Both versions of the democratic idea perfectly illustrate the article 3 of the Tunisian Constitution states that the people who holds the sovereignty he exercises by legal means. It is clear that the people can exercise this sovereignty in the context of a representative model such as Montesquieu and defined in the context of good governance is the emergence of civil society that represents a kind of power-cons in power. Another aspect of this evolution has been deployed in parallel within civil society on the involvement of elites in politics. All these variations have helped develop a participatory political culture and the emergence of a pluralistic democracy based on compliance with laws and institutions in a transparent and above in different types of elections, presidential, legislative, municipal. All these achievements are expected to be consolidated in the political program "Together We Meet Challenges
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