Progressive Democratic Party

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الحزب الديمقراطي التقدمي
Progressive Democratic Party
Logo of the PDP
Party leader Nejib Chebbi
Secretary General Maya Jribi
founding December 13, 1983
Registration: September 12, 1988
fusion April 9, 2012
(incorporated in: Republican Party )
Headquarters 10 Rue de Palestine, 1000 Tunis
Alignment Liberalism ,
secularism
Colours) Yellow, green, red
Website www.pdp.tn
pdpinfo.org

The Progressive Democratic Party ( Arabic الحزب الديمقراطي التقدمي al-Ḥizb ad-Dīmuqrāṭī at-Taqaddumī , French Parti Démocrate Progressiste , abbreviation PDP ) was a liberal and secular party in Tunisia . It was founded in 1983 as a Progressive Socialist Association, officially approved in 1988 and renamed the Progressive Democratic Party in 2001. Under the rule of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali , it was a legal opposition party that was subject to political repression. After the revolution in Tunisia in 2010/2011 , it was one of the most important secular parties. It was led by Ahmed Nejib Chebbi and Maya Jribi . In April 2012 it merged with other parties to form the Republican Party .

Under the rule of Ben Ali

When it was founded, the Progressive Socialist Association (التجمع الاشتراكي التقدمي, French Rassemblement Socialiste Progressiste ) Oppositionists of various currents: from former Marxists to democracy activists and progressive Muslims. Even after being approved by the Home Office in 1988, the party, led by Nejib Chebbi, faced police persecution and attacks from government media. In the elections from 1989 to 1999 she participated unsuccessfully: Her share of the vote was between 0.1 and 0.3%. As a result, she was not represented in parliament and did not receive any financial support from the state.

In 2001 the alliance was renamed the Progressive Democratic Party. In order to draw attention to the democratic deficit in Tunisia, she decided to boycott the election in 2004 . Maya Jribi replaced Nejib Chebbi as General Secretary in 2006. She was the first woman to head a Tunisian party. When a court tried to force the party to move its party headquarters out of Tunis, Jribi and Chebbi went on a 20-day hunger strike in October 2007. The Ben Ali government then overturned the decision and the party's notoriety increased significantly. After a tailor-made law excluded Nejib Chebbi from the 2009 presidential election , the party again called for a boycott.

After the Tunisian Revolution in 2011

After Ben Ali's flight from Tunisia, Nejib Chebbi was appointed Minister for Regional Development in the interim government on January 17, 2011. In the campaign for the constituent assembly election in October 2011, the PDP took a decidedly anti-Islamist course. She appeared as the main opponent of the favorite Ennahda movement. Unlike the Congress for the Republic (CPR), with which it competed for the votes of the secular middle class, the PDP strictly ruled out a coalition. She led an election campaign based on the Western model with intensive media use, in which she on the one hand invoked her past as a principled opposition to the old regime, and on the other hand sharply attacked Ennahda. Opposition to the Islamist party became the main focus of their campaigns and suppressed all content-related issues.

In the election, the PDP performed surprisingly poorly: It had 17 members of parliament and thus 7.8% of a total of 217 seats in the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia . After this election defeat, the Republican Party was founded as the “new center party” at the Progress Party's fifth congress on April 9, 2012 , which was also joined by the Afek Tounes and several other liberal and secular parties as well as independents.

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