The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) organized a symposium on "the Youth's Vision to get out of the current Political Crisis." Yassine Ayari, the interim Secretary General of the Movement "SAWAID", Mohammed Khalil Bareoumi, a sociology researcher and political activist, and Khalil Klai, a blogger, all presented their views concerning this debatable subject.

The first to intervene was Yassine Ayari who mentioned that the search for solutions to the political crisis witnessed requires first and foremost the characterization of problems and their causes. He pointed that this situation is mainly caused by the political parties that begun, since the announcement of the results of 2011 elections, a campaign of skepticism and intrigue, believing that power belongs to them and is forbidden to others. He further clarified that among the main reasons of this crisis is the fact that the youth were excluded from decision-taking positions in the parties and in the governmental institutions they belong to and that the elderly in those parties did not find the youth's revolutionary views and suggestions palatable.  

Besides, he added that a confrontation is brewing between rebellious youths and elders who are not convinced of the peaceful transfer of power, urging the youth to take their positions. Yassine stated that absenting the participation of this category in decision-making and in shaping the future Tunisia will lead them to adopt the choice of unification with the marginalized youth in the system of thinking of the Salafist Youth to announce a second revolution on the Iranian model while rejecting the civil state.  

During the seminar, it was agreed upon the truth that despite its effective contribution in the revolution, the youth have been deliberately absented and excluded by "the political elite" either inadvertently or intentionally. The necessity to devote the youth's effective participation in the different institutions and parties was also a consensual point.  

Within this framework, Mohammed Khalil Bareoumi said that Tunisian youths are enthusiastic to achieve their revolutionary objectives. Yet, they were, unfortunately, confronted with many parties that attempted at blocking their activities. Furthermore, he stated that the political elite did not distinguish between the revolutionary instant and the political instant and this led unfortunately to the abortion of the revolution. He suggested building a concept of "political virtue" based on the the love of the homeland and the practice of politics instead of the the love of power and influence. He also stressed the need to unite the youths under "a youth compact."

Khalil Klai shared the idea of the youths' exclusion. He added that the main cause of the current crisis is related to the revolution's youths who entered after the revolution in the logic of ideological conflicts and were influenced by the ills of the political parties' leaders (grudges, obstruction, conspiracy.....).

Such a situation withdrew the youth's attention from occupying decision-making and management positions in the parties they belong to. Khalil stated that the second equally important cause of this split is the ruling parties' as well as the opposition parties' reliance on foreign intervention which in its turn did not absorb the revolution's requirements and objectives. The need to bring the transitional phase to an end through constitutional rules and electoral frameworks is among the solutions proposed by Khalil. He pointed to the lack of decisiveness on the subject of Transitional Justice as one of the causes of the current crisis. At the conclusion of his intervention, he called for opening the media archive and the archive of political police while holding the corrupt and the conspirators accountable for their deeds.