List of political parties in Tunisia
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This article lists political parties in Tunisia. Tunisia was a dominant-party state of the Constitutional Democratic Rally ("RCD" from its French language initials) before the Tunisian revolution. In the aftermath of the revolution the RCD was dissolved by the new state authorities and over 70 new political parties formed.[1]
The parties
The following parties opposition parties exist de jure and/or de facto. On January 20, 2011 the cabinet of the interim government recognized all previously banned parties, with the exception of Hizb ut-Tahrir and a few other parties.[2]
Legalized before the Tunisian revolution
- Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties (FDTL) (التكتل الديمقراطي من أجل العمل والحريات, Forum démocratique pour le travail et les libertés), a.k.a. Ettakatol
- Ettajdid Movement (Renewal Movement, حركة التجديد, Mouvement Ettajdid)
- Green Party for Progress (حزب الخضر للتقدم, Parti des verts pour le progrès)
- Movement of Socialist Democrats (حركة الديمقراطيين الاشتراكيين, Mouvement des démocrates socialistes)
- Party of People's Unity (حزب الوحدة الشعبية, Parti de l'unité populaire)
- Social Liberal Party (الحزب الاجتماعي التحرري, Parti social-libéral)
- Unionist Democratic Union (الاتحاد الديمقراطي الوحدوي, Union démocratique unioniste)
- Liberal Democratic Social Party (Parti social démocratique liberal)[3]
Legalized after the Tunisian revolution
- Afek Tounes. Initially merged into the Republican Party, though it was revived in August of 2013.
- El Amen Party
- Ba'ath Movement of Tunisa (PBT) (حركة البعث تونس, Mouvement Baath de Tunisie)
- Congress for the Republic (CPR) (المؤتمر من أجل الجمهورية, Congrès pour la République)
- Cultural Unionist Nation Party
- Current of Love
- Democratic Alliance Party
- Democratic Current
- Democratic Patriots' Movement (Arabic: حركة الوطنيون الديمقراطيون)
- Democratic Social Nation Party
- Destourian Movement
- Ennahda Movement (حركة النهضة, Mouvement de la Renaissance, also Renaissance Party)
- Equity and Equality Party
- Free Patriotic Union
- Future Tunisia Party (حركة تونس المستقبل, Mouvement Tunisie de l'Avenir)
- Hizb ut-Tahrir (Liberation Party, حزب التحرير)
- Homeland Party (حزب الوطن, Al Watan)
- Al Iklaa Party
- Initiative
- Justice and Development Party
- Maghrebi Republican Party (الحزب الجمهوري المغاربي, Parti républicain maghrébin)
- Movement of the Republic
- New Destour Party
- Nidaa Tounes
- Patriotic and Democratic Labour Party (حزب العمل الوطني الديمقراطي, Parti du travail patriotique et démocratique)
- Tunisian Pirate Party (حزب القراصنة التونسي, Parti pirate tunisien)
- Parti Democrate Liberal www.pdltunisia.com
- Patriotic Construction Party
- Pirate Party
- Popular Front
- Popular Unity Movement
- Popular Unity Party
- Progressive People's Party
- Reform and Development Party
- Reform Front Party
- Republican Party
- Social Democratic Path
- Third Alternative
- Tunisian Movement for Freedom and Dignity
- Tunisian National Front
- Voice of the People of Tunisia
- Wafa Movement
- Al-Watan Party
- Workers' Party (حزب العمال, Parti des travailleurs), formerly the Tunisian Workers' Communist Party (PCOT)
Past parties
- Destour, founded 1920; split in 1934 resulted in the Neo Destour.
- Neo Destour, which became the PSD in 1964.
- Socialist Destourian Party (PSD), which became the RCD in 1988.
- Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD). Dissolved in 2011.
- Tunisian Communist Party. Became the Ettajdid Movement.
- Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) (الحزب الديمقراطي التقدمي, Parti démocrate progressiste). Merged into the Republican Party.
- Ettajdid Movement. Merged into the Social Democratic Path.
See also
References
- ↑ "Tunisia Seen As Laboratory For Arab Democracy". NPR. 9 May 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
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in Authors list (help) - ↑ "Tunisia cabinet to lift party bans". Al Jazeera English. 20 January 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
- ↑ "Tunisia - Opposition Parties". Global Security. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
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