Weekly Report (Friday, August 22, 2025): “Betting on the Future” Program…
The Generational Reconstruction Plan
The Minister of Municipalities and Agriculture, Wael Al-Mubarak, held a meeting with the participants of the program called “Betting on the Future,” which is affiliated with the Government Political Development Institute. He emphasized the government’s policy of enhancing youth presence and empowering them according to the plans approved by King Hamad, aiming to support them in shaping the present and building the future, and achieving the goals of Vision 2030.
Similar meetings were organized with other ministers in recent days following the completion of the first phase of the courses offered to participants in the third edition of the “Betting on the Future” program, which opened for registration at the end of June 2025. Its activities started in mid-July and included training courses and meetings with officials. It is scheduled to conclude with a parliamentary simulation in cooperation with the puppet House of Representatives, which is controlled by the authority. The institute’s Executive Director, Iman Janahi, stated that the program aims “to qualify a parliamentary youth generation aware of the political process,” by training them to participate in “decision-making and legislative positions.” All of this falls under the project sponsored by the tyrant Hamad since the coup against the constitution in 2002 and the imposition of oppressive laws that culminated in the full military control of the country after the February 14, 2011 revolution.
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The “Betting on the Future” program is one of the programs organized by the Political Development Institute affiliated with the Shura Council, i.e., the main chamber of parliament whose members are appointed by Hamad. It holds the primary role through the extensive powers that adapt the parliament to serve the authority’s agenda. The institute — whose members are also appointed by Hamad — is responsible for preparing the courses that dedicate multiple efforts to ensure control over new generations. It exclusively targets youth aged between 18 and 30 and does not hide its aim to “qualify” Bahraini generations according to the vision imposed by the authority. This complements other plans aimed at programming public opinion, reshaping the audience, and subjecting it to the status quo, by controlling the future orientations of the local society.
