The President of the Republic, Kaïs Saïed, received Friday July 18, 2025 at the Palais de Carthage the Minister of Youth and Sports, Sadok Mourali. At the heart of the interview: the bill on sports structures and the need to end the drifts of the sector.
The President of the Republic, Kaïs Saïed, met this Friday afternoon at the Palais de Carthage, the Minister of Youth and Sports, Sadok Mourali. The interview focused on the organic bill relating to sports structures, currently in preparation.
A bill in preparation
The Head of State stressed the capital importance of this text to break with a “hybrid” system, in his words, which is not based on structured professionalism or a clear amateur practice, and which has left the brokerage and corruption networks in the field of sport.
Kaïs Saïed recalled that several previous texts underlined the contribution of physical and sports education to the development of the physical, intellectual and social capacities of citizens, in connection with the fundamental objectives of education and culture.
The state of dilapidation of the infrastructure in question
The president also praised Tunisia’s sporting successes on an international scale, fruit not only of skills but also a strong patriotic fiber, however regretting the fall in performance, especially in public sports.
According to him, this regression is due to deliberately erroneous choices and the state of dilapidation of infrastructure, with urbanization which no longer leaves spaces dedicated to youth and sport.
Make way for a real legal framework
In his observation, Kaïs Saïed evoked the degradation of many youth centers, formerly places of cultural and sporting development, and today often abandoned or transformed into places of drift and drug use.
He concluded by affirming that Tunisia needs a deep renewal of its legal texts, all sectors combined, to restore youth, sport and culture the place they deserve and fight against the causes of the current crisis.
