الديمقراطية والحكم الراشد: رهانات المشاركة السياسية وتحقيق التنمية

Many national and foreign observers believe that the citizen in the third world and in the Arab countries in particular lives in an undemocratic atmosphere characterized by depriving him of his right to express his opinion and freedom of expression and participation in making his future, and suffers from difficult social and economic conditions in front of the closure of all hope In a decent life characterized by openness, progress and freedom, in addition to depriving him of his right to information about his country’s resources and its internal and external dealings and considering them as state secrets, while they are known outside the Arab countries to the simplest media and even other societies. The situation, in addition to the contempt for the human being and the wasting of his human and moral value, led to the spread of a state of despair and distrust of the political systems on the part of the citizens and the lack of positive interaction with them, which made the political authority remove the Arab peoples from the circle of their political reference and transcend it, but rather Its place was decided by various methods, such as manipulating the results of the elections, the results of which are usually predetermined, in favor of the ruling regimes. All of this made the popular classes and groups sublimate from power and even The opposition loses confidence in both, especially after the repeated disappointments that have been recorded in many cases towards these forces, and therefore it is worth being convinced that the opposition is unable to achieve the desired change. Some see the opposite of what we mentioned earlier, in that the reasons for the delay of Arab countries in the field The democratic process is due to the halt in the growth of civil society and the absence of political culture accompanying this growth. However, recent years, according to them, have shown a modest beginning to the process of building civil society and democratic transformation, which accompanied the growth of modern social and economic formations, and demanded participation in managing the affairs of the crisis. In the field of adopting the democratic model and free elections, societies are experiencing a need for a comprehensive reform process based on self-awareness and then imitation of the other. power, and this is on the part of the political systems and the citizens themselves.