Poll: Tunisians support openness

A recent opinion poll prepared by the “Afro Baromet” network, which specializes in public opinion studies in the brown continent, revealed that more than half of the Tunisian citizens support that the citizens of North African countries have the right to cross the international borders for trade or work freely.

54 percent of Tunisians believe that their country’s government is better to facilitate trade exchanges with other countries, and the Tunisian youth between 18 and 35 years were at the forefront of age groups defending this trade policy.

In a similar context, the center of the west of the country topped the list of regions and states whose population defends the promotion of trade in Tunisia with the world, while Tunisian women seem the least enthusiastic of this idea, as only 47 percent of them crossed their support for this commercial trend.

On the other hand, 44 percent of Tunisians supported the restriction of foreign trade to protect the Tunisian consumer, while 46 percent considered that their country should work to reduce the flow of people and goods across the border.

72 percent of the Tunisians said that their government should work to facilitate trade exchange with all countries, while 15 % of them considered that this matter should be limited only to African countries and not others, while 7 percent of them defended the promotion of trade exchange with Tunisian neighboring countries.

The “Afro Baromet” network registered that “Tunisian citizens are generally invoked to more commercial openness to stimulate the economy, as most of them support the facilitation of international trade to create economic opportunities, despite the expression of many citizens of their reservations about free trade and freedom of the movement of people and goods.”

Tunisia has witnessed difficult economic conditions in light of the policies of President Qais Saeed, who has taken since his arrival at the Carthage Palace a set of measures that contributed to the exacerbation of these conditions, the slowdown in growth and increased trade deficit, which was the issue of warnings and alerts addressed by political actors and unionists to the president and invited him to amend his policies and fight corruption that rests the growth of the economy.