Ettajdid
| حركة التجديد Ettajdid movement |
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|---|---|
| Secretary General |
Mohamed Harmel (1993–2007) Ahmed Brahim (2007–12) |
| founding | April 23, 1993 as the successor to the Tunisian Communist Party |
| fusion | April 1, 2012 (published in: Social-Democratic Way ) |
| Headquarters | 6 Rue de Métouia, 1000 Tunis |
| Alignment | secular , democratic, socialist , left-wing liberal |
| Colours) | blue |
| Website | ettajdid.org |
The Ettajdid Movement ( Arabic حركة التجديد, DMG Ḥarakat at-Taǧdīd , French Mouvement Ettajdid , "Movement for Renewal"), also referred to simply as Ettajdid , was a moderately left and secular party in Tunisia .
It emerged from the Tunisian Communist Party in April 1993 after it had abandoned its previous ideology. During the presidency of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali , the party was one of the few legal opposition parties but was hampered by government organs. After the Tunisian revolution in 2011 , she was part of the Democratic-Modernist Pole electoral alliance led by her . In April 2012 it merged with other components of the Pole to form the Social Democratic Path .
From its inception until 2007, Mohamed Harmel , then Ahmed Brahim, was the party's first secretary.
Ettajdid published the party newspaper at-Tariq al-Jadid ("New Path"). Your party color was blue.
history
At its party congress on April 22nd and 23rd, 1993, the Tunisian Communist Party decided to give up its previous ideology and transform itself into the Ettajdid movement. The party's first secretary was Mohamed Harmel, who had previously held this post in the Communist Party from 1981. The new party received approval from the Ministry of the Interior in the same year. Instead of communism, it now strived for a social market economy and pursued a center-left line. In the parliamentary elections in Tunisia in 1994 , the party won four seats. That rose to five seats in the 1999 general election before falling back to three in the 2004 election .
Ahmed Brahim took over the operational management in 2007, Mohamed Harmel only remained chairman of the protocol until his death in 2011. After the 2009 election, parliamentary representation fell again to just two seats. This ultimately made the party the smallest of the seven parties represented in the Tunisian parliament . In the simultaneous presidential election , Ahmed Brahim was the only truly opposition candidate. The other candidates running against Ben Ali belonged to satellite parties of the ruling RCD arranged with the system . Government organs and state-affiliated media made Brahim's election campaign almost impossible and ineffective by preventing meetings and not allowing media presence. Ultimately, he only won 1.6% of the vote.
After Ben Ali's flight from Tunisia as a result of the revolutionary events in January 2011, Brahim was appointed Minister for Higher Education in the national transitional government on January 17th. For the election to the Constituent Assembly , Ettajdid formed a decidedly secularist alliance called the Democratic-Modernist Pole (PDM). During the election campaign, he took a clear stand against the Islamist Ennahda party and addressed the allegedly threatened Islamization of the country. In the election, the bloc fared significantly weaker than generally expected and only won 5 of the 217 seats in the Constituent Assembly. In April 2012 Ettajdid founded the new Social-Democratic Way party together with the smaller Tunisian Workers' Party and previously non-party members of the Democratic-Modernist Pole .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Nordhausen, Thomas Schmid: The rebellion of the young middle class. In: The Arab Revolution. Democratic awakening from Tunisia to the Gulf. Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2011, p. 21.
- ↑ BBC News - Tunisia forms national unity government amid unrest . January 17, 2011. Retrieved January 18, 2011.
- ↑ Angelique Chrisafis: Tunisian elections: the key parties . October 19, 2011. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
- ↑ Sam Bollier: Who are Tunisia's political parties? . Al Jazeera English. October 9, 2011. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
- ↑ Monica Marks: Can Islamism and Feminism Mix? . October 26, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2011.