Unionist Democratic Union
| Unionist Democratic Union | |
|---|---|
| French name | Union démocratique unioniste |
| Leader | Ahmed Inoubli |
| Founded | November 26, 1988 |
| Headquarters |
80 avenue Hédi Chaker Tunis |
| Ideology |
Pan-Arabism, Arab nationalism, Arab socialism[1] |
| Colours | Brown |
| Constituent Assembly |
0 / 217 |
The Unionist Democratic Union (French: Union démocratique unioniste) is a political party in Tunisia with pan-Arabist ideology.[2] It was founded in 1988 and, unlike other oppositional parties in Tunisia which was then ruled by the Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD), immediately recognised by the government. Its founder and first secretary-general Abderrahmane Tlili had been a member of the RCD before he founded the UDU in order to gather Arab nationalists, including Baathists and Nasserists, in a party that was close to the government.[3]
In 1994, the electoral law was changed, ensuring the parliamentary represention of minor parties. The MDS received 3 of 163 seats (19 being reserved for the opposition).[4] In the 1999 election, the party won seven seats, which is won again in the 2004 election. In 2009, this increased to nine seats.
In the election for the Constituent Assembly after the Tunisian revolution of 2011, the UDU failed to win any seats.
Footnotes
- ↑ Belev, Boyan (2000), Forcing Freedom: Political Control of Privatization and Economic Opening in Egypt and Tunisia, University Press of America, p. 104
- ↑ Carpenter, C. (2006). "Tunisia: Government". World and Its Peoples (London: Marshall Cavendish). p. 1274. ISBN 978-0-7614-7571-2.
- ↑ Kéfi, Ridha (29 September 2003), "« L'affaire Tlili » commence", Jeune Afrique
- ↑ Waltz, Susan E. (1995), Human Rights and Reform: Changing the Face of North African Politics, University of California Press, p. 59
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