citizenship in which the citizens are able to recognize each other and be stakeholders. This means that they can immediately establish the link between this active citizenship and the process of tackling their daily problems as they experience them, as they imagine them, as they formulate them, be it in the area of employment, training, social protection, the future of the youth, democracy within society, the opening of Tunisia to the world, etc… 213. The 8,913 Associations constitute a school of participative democracy allowing the citizens to come out with perspectives for the future and an approach which can also give shape to the re-articulation of the relationship between the State and civil society. This movement is accompanied by transfers of enhanced competences towards the local and the district levels so as to realise, each time, the most coherent level of subsidiarity. II- The Organization of Political Parties 214. Organic law n° 88-32 of 3rd May 1988 establishing the organization of the Political Parties compels these Parties to respect and defend human rights as determined by the Constitution and the International Conventions ratified by Tunisia. 215. There are nine Political Parties in Tunisia today. They are: - The Constitutional Democratic Alliance (RCD), created in 1920. - The Ettajdid Movement (former Tunisian Communist Party the prohibition of which had been lifted on the 18th July 1981); - The Movement of Socialist Democrats (MDS), operational since the 19th November 1983; - The United Peoples’ Party (PUP), in operation since the 19th November 1983; - The Liberal Socialist Party (PSL), in operation since the 12th November 1988; - The Progessive Democratic Party, in operation since the 12th September 1983; - The Unionist Democratic Union (UDU), in operation since the 30th November 1988; - The Employment and Liberties Democratic Forum (FDTL), in operation since the 25th October 2002; - The Green Party for Progress, created on the 3rd March 2006. 216. According to the law in force, the task of these Political Parties consists in promoting a climate of pluralism based on mutual respect and on the respect for modernist values. Democracy is not only a matter of adjusting institutions, it is a spirit, morals, and a practice: the Political Parties which engage in the democratic process render these possible and develop them by enhancing the consolidation of the spirit of participation on which depends the emergence of a sense of responsibility without which there can be no democracy. ARTICLE 11 The Right of Assembly 217. Article 11 of the Charter stipulates that « every individual shall have the right to assemble freely with others ». 218. In Tunisia, the freedom of assembly is guaranteed by Article 8 of the Constitution. It is exercised under the conditions defined by the law. In this 48