Nidaa Tounes

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نداء تونس
Nidaa Tounes
reputation of Tunisia
Party logo
Party leader Mohamed Ennaceur (interim)
Secretary General Mohsen Marzouk
founding June 2012
Alignment Secularism
social democracy
progressivism
Parliament seats
3/217
( 2019 )
Number of members 110,000 (2014)

Nidaa Tounes ( Arabic نداء تونس, DMG Nidāʾ Tūnis , translated “Call of Tunisia” ) is a secular rallying party in Tunisia . Founded in 2012, in the parliamentary elections in October 2014 it was immediately elected as the strongest force in the People's Representative Assembly. Founding chairman Beji Caid Essebsi also won the second round of the presidential election at the end of 2014 against incumbent Moncef Marzouki .

history

founding

Nidaa Tounes was founded by former Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi after the post-revolutionary elections in 2011 . The party aims to unite the country's secular forces and to act against the Islamist Ennahda party, which dominated after the Tunisian revolution and the first free election . The ten-member founding committee included Taieb Baccouche and Selma Elloumi Rekik .

The reputation of Tunisia joined former members of the Constitutional Democratic collection (RCD) of ousted President Ben Ali , secular leftists and progressive liberals. The party also has the support of numerous members of both the Tunisian trade union confederation UGTT and the national employers' association UTICA. Leading members of the party identify themselves as Destouriens , so they refer to the tradition of the Neo Destur Party or Socialist Destur Party of the first Tunisian President and "state founder" Habib Bourguiba . Critics see it as a reservoir for representatives of the old regime. The party chairman Essebsi was Interior, Defense and Foreign Minister under Bourguiba and Ben Ali's President of Parliament during the first few years of the presidency. In the course of the revolutionary events of 2010/11 he became prime minister and led a transitional government during the transformation period.

Constituent Assembly

From August 2012, Nidaa Tounes was represented in the Constituent Assembly by defectors from other parties. In October 2012, a party official died in Tataouine , allegedly after being beaten up by government supporters during violent clashes between Ennahda and Nidaa supporters. In July 2013 it had 11 MPs, but several of them left the party. When the assembly was dissolved in autumn 2014, it had 6 parliamentarians.

Alliances 2013

In February 2013 she founded the Union for Tunisia, together with the Republican Party and several smaller opposition and secular parties . In July 2013 they joined forces with other parties, including the left Popular Front , to form the even broader National Salvation Front , which wanted to coordinate the opposition to the government of the so-called Troika . But it soon fell apart again.

Elections in 2014 and government responsibility since 2015

For the parliamentary election in October 2014, she did not run as part of the Union for Tunisia , but with her own list. With 86 of the total of 217 seats, she became the strongest force and has been with Mohamed Ennaceur since the constitution on 2/4. December the President of Parliament.

Ennaceur took over the leadership of the party on December 31, 2014, because on that day the founding chairman Beji Caid Essebsi became President of Tunisia after winning the presidential election in November and December 2014 . Tunisia's constitution, passed in January 2014, stipulates that the president may not belong to any political party. Nidaa Tounes also provided eight ministers in the Essid cabinet that was formed under the non-party Prime Minister Habib Essid , so that the party assumed the leading position in Tunisian politics from 2015.

On November 9, 2015, the party split. 31 of its previous MPs announced that they were leaving the party, which also meant that they lost their parliamentary majority. The 31 MPs justified their resignation by saying that the presidential family was trying to build up a dynasty and the presidential son Hafedh as his father’s successor, and they criticized the party's increasingly authoritarian character, the establishment of a party militia , corruption, and smear campaigns by media publishers that were in the hands of Party members and an attempted coup against the new democratic constitution. Since November 10, 2015, the moderate Islamist Ennahda has once again been the strongest parliamentary group in the Tunisian parliament.

After the Essid cabinet lost the vote of confidence in parliament on August 3, 2016, the Nidaa Tounes politician Youssef Chahed formed a new cabinet on behalf of Essebsi, which in turn is based on a broad parliamentary majority together with the Ennahda. In addition to the head of government, Nidaa Tounes has four ministers and four state secretaries in the Chahed cabinet , which has been in power since August 27, 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L'interview intégrale de Béji Caïd Essebsi à Leaders: J'irai jusqu'au bout! September 1, 2014, accessed December 24, 2014 (French).
  2. ^ A b Daniel Tavana, Alex Russell: Previewing Tunisia's Parliamentary & Presidential Elections. Project on Middle East Democracy , October 2014, p. 9 , accessed December 23, 2014 .
  3. ^ A b c Monica Marks, Omar Belhaj Salah: Uniting for Tunisia? Sada, March 28, 2013, accessed July 21, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Erik Churchill: The 'Call for Tunisia' . In: Foreign Policy . June 27, 2012.
  5. ↑ Brahim Qassas et Mouldi Zidi rejoignent officiellement Nidaa Tounes. BusinessNews.com.tn, August 8, 2012.
  6. ↑ Tunisia clash leaves opposition official dead. AlJazeera, October 19, 2012.
  7. ↑ Deux élus d'Ettakatol rejoignent Nidaa Tounes. Tunisie Numerique, July 9, 2013.
  8. ^ Website of the Constituent Assembly , accessed October 29, 2014.
  9. ^ Union for Tunisia. Jebali's initiative “step forward on right path”. ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tap.info.tn 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. TAP, February 12, 2013
  10. ^ Tunisia: Political Parties and Civil Society Components Announce Formation of National Salvation Front , allAfrica.com, July 26, 2013
  11. ↑ Après la defection de Nidaa Tounes: L'Union pour la Tunisie dans l'expectative! Le Temps, June 28, 2014
  12. ↑ Thirty-One Deputies Resign as Nidaa Tounes Loses Majority. ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Tunisialive , November 9, 2015 (English); Ruling party Nidaa Tounes faces split.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Deutschlandfunk , November 9, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tunisia-live.net@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.deutschlandfunk.de  
  13. ↑ MP resignations lead Ennhada to gain majority in Tunisian Parliament. In: Middle East Monitor , November 10, 2015 (English).