Democratic-modernist pole
The Democratic-Modernist Pole ( Arabic القطب الديمقراطي الحداثي, DMG al-Quṭb ad-dīmuqrāṭī al-ḥadāṯī , French Pôle démocratique moderniste , abbreviation PDM , Arabic for short القطب, al-Qutb 'the Pol') was a secular and left-wing political alliance in Tunisia . It was founded in May 2011, after the Tunisian Revolution and before the election to the Constituent Assembly .
The alliance consisted of five citizens' groups and four political parties, the largest of which is the Ettajdid movement . Attempts by the Democratic-Modernist Pole to form a coalition with other parties before the elections failed. Riadh Ben Fadl and Mustapha Ben Ahmed were the founders of the group, led by Ahmed Brahim , General Secretary of Ettajdid. On September 7, the PDM announced its lists of candidates for seats in the Constituent Assembly in all 33 constituencies, both domestically and abroad. The top candidates were 16 women and 17 men. Pre-election polls predicted up to 20% of the vote for the bloc.
In fact, contrary to all expectations, the PDM received only 2.8% of the votes cast and 5 of the 217 seats in the Constituent Assembly. After the election, the PDM members formed a parliamentary group (Alliance) with other secular parties ( PDP , Afek Tounes ) and non-party members who were in opposition to the three-party government (“Troika”) . They rejected the provisions of the provisional constitutional law (“mini-constitution”) of December 10 and the subsequent election of Moncef Marzouki as interim president with the votes of Ennahda , Ettakatol and his Congress Party (CPR).
In April 2012 the small Republican Party merged with the PDP and Afek Tounes to form the new, larger Republican Party and thus left the PDM. Shortly afterwards, the Ettajdid movement, the Tunisian Labor Party and non-party members of the PDM merged to form the Social Democratic Way . This effectively dissolved the alliance.
Composition of the block
Four parties:
- Ettajdid movement - le mouvement Ettajdid
- Socialist Left Party - le Parti socialiste de gauche
- Middle Way - la Voie du Center
- Republican Party - le Parti républicain
Five independent initiatives:
- National Collective of Independents of the Pole - Collectif national des indépendant (e) s du pôle
- Citizens' initiative - citoyenne initiative
- League of Independents of the Pole - Ligue des indépendants du pôle
- Enough of the splitting, let's move forward! - Assez de divisions, allons de l'avant
- Call for a democratic, social and cultivated pole - Appel pour un pôle démocratique, social et culturel
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Serge Halimi: Compass needle of the revolution. Le Monde diplomatique, October 14, 2011.
- ↑ Michael Gessat: Election campaign on foreign soil. DW, October 18, 2011
- ↑ Reiner Wandler: "The people wanted it that way." taz.de, October 25, 2011.
- ↑ Islamists Lead Polls Before First Democratic Tunisia Election By Gregory Viscusi and Jihen Laghmari - bloomberg.com Oct 18, 2011
- ↑ The Modernist Democratic Pole: A “New” political coalition ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Zied Mhirsi | 03 June 2011
- ↑ Modernist Democratic Pole fields candidacies in all constituencies ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Tunisian News Agency, September 8, 2011
- ↑ In a Worried Corner of Tunis Joshua Hammer NYRoB October 27, 2011. (text not available for free on internet)
- ↑ who are we? ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Pôle démocratique moderniste website
