Movement of Socialist Democrats

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The Movement of Social Democrats (French: Mouvement des Démocrates Socialistes, Arabic: Hizb al-Dimocratiyin al-Ishtirakiyin) is an opposition political party in Tunisia. It became in 1999 the major opposition party with 13 seats in the Tunisian parliament.

In 2001 the then party leader Mohamed al Mouadda was charged with having formed a pact with the banned islamist group Al Nahda. At the last legislative elections, 24 October 2004, the party won 4.6 % of the popular vote and 14 out of 189 seats.