Ettakatol

التكتل الديمقراطي من أجل العمل والحريات Democratic forum for work and freedom
Secretary General	Mustafa Ben Jaafar
founding	April 9, 1994
Headquarters	4 rue d'Angleterre, 1001, Tunis
Alignment	social democratic , secular
Colours)	red
Parliament seats	0/217
International connections	Socialist International , Progressive Alliance
European party	Party of European Socialists (observer)
Website	www.fdtl.org

The Democratic Forum for Work and Freedom ( French Forum démocratique pour le travail et les libertés (FDTL) , Arabic التكتل الديمقراطي من أجل العمل والحريات, DMG at-takattul ad-dīmuqrāṭī min aǧl al-ʿamal wa-l-ḥurrīya ) also called Ettakatol , is a political party in Tunisia . Their orientation is social democratic and secular . Its founder and general secretary is the doctor and radiologist Mustafa Ben Jaafar .

It was founded on April 9, 1994 as a system-critical split from the more conformist movement of Socialist Democrats . It was only recognized as a party by the Interior Ministry in October 2002. Under the autocratic regime of Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali , the FDTL was not represented in parliament. From 2005 she was in the opposition coalition of October 18 with the Democratic Progressive Party , the Parti communiste des ouvriers de Tunisie and with Islamic movements. In the parliamentary election in October 2009 , she received only 0.12% of the vote, according to official information.

During the Tunisian Revolution , its party leader Ben Jaafar was appointed health minister in the interim government of Mohamed Ghannouchi on January 17, 2011 , but he did not take office to protest the continued presence of high-ranking representatives of the dissolved ruling party RCD. Ettakatol became one of the most important parties in the secular center-left in the post-revolutionary period. In the election campaign leading up to the constituent assembly elections in October 2011 , it relied mainly on the commitment of its base members and the activity in social networks due to a lack of significant funds. With 20 of the 217 seats, it became the fourth largest force in the assembly. It then agreed with the two strongest parties, the Islamist Ennahda and the secular Congress for the Republic (CPR), on a distribution of the three highest state offices. Ben Jaafar was accordingly elected President of the Constituent Assembly, while the FDTL supported the election of Moncef Marzouki (CPR) as interim president and the appointment of Hamadi Jebali (Ennahda) as head of government.

In the following period, several MPs elected for Ettakatol defected to other parties, in particular to the secular rallying party Nidaa Tounes , which was founded in 2012 . She lost all her seats in the first regular parliamentary election held under the new constitution in October 2014 . In the presidential election that followed a month later , their candidate Ben Jaafar received just 0.67% of the vote.

The party is a member of the Socialist International , the Progressive Alliance and an observer of the Social Democratic Party of Europe . She has been publishing an Arabic-language weekly newspaper called Mouwatinoun ( Citoyens ) since 2007 .

Web links

• Official website of the party

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Who are Tunisia's main opposition figures? Reuters, January 17, 2011.
2. ^ Tunisia - New government leaders quit ruling party . BBC News, Jan. 18, 2011.
3. ↑ Celeste Hicks: Tunisia election - Loving and loathing Islamists . BBC News, October 21, 2011.
4. ↑ Sam Bollier: Who are Tunisia's political parties? , Al Jazeera, October 9, 2011.
5. ↑ Deux élues d'Ettakatol rejoignent Nidaa Tounes. , Tunisie Numerique, July 9, 2013.