List of political parties in Tunisia
This is a list of Tunisia's political parties :
Current parties
logo | Political party | Alignment | Chairman |
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Nidaa Tounes ("Call of Tunisia") | secular | Mohamed Ennaceur | |
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Ennahda ("rebirth") | Islamic | Rashid al-Ghannushi |
Qalb Tounes ("Heart of Tunisia") | populist | Nabil Karoui | |
At-tayār dimukrāti ("Democratic Current") | |||
Aïtilaf al-Karama ("Coalition of Dignity") | Islamist extremist | ||
Parti destourien libre ("Free Destour Party") | conservative-secular | Abir Moussi | |
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Free Patriotic Union | secular, economically liberal | Slim Riahi |
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Labor Party (PT) | Communist | Hamma Hammami |
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Democratic Patriots Movement (MouPaD) | Marxist , Pan-Arab | Zied Lakhdhar |
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Afek Tounes ("Horizons of Tunisia") | secular, liberal | Yassine Brahim |
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Congress for the Republic (CPR) | left-liberal , secular | Imed daimi |
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National Constitutional Initiative (IND) | center | Camel Morjane |
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Ettakatol (Democratic Forum for Work and Freedom; FDTL) | social democratic | |
Republican Party | secular, liberal | ||
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Tunisian Pirate Party | social liberal | |
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Maghreb Liberal Party | liberal | Mohamed Bouebdelli |
Homeland party | center |
Historical parties
At the time of the overthrow of the authoritarian head of state Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011, the following parties were represented in the Tunisian Chamber of Deputies :
- Constitutional Democratic Collection (RCD) - Ben Ali Unity Party, dissolved in March 2011
- Movement of Socialist Democrats (MDS) - Social Democrats
- People's Unity Party (PUP) - Pan-Arab Socialists
- Unionist Democratic Union (UDU) - Pan-Arab nationalists
- Ettajdid movement - post-communists, absorbed in April 2012 in the social-democratic way .
- Social Liberal Party (PSL) - Liberals
- Green Party for Progress (PVP) - ecologists
The Progressive Democratic Party was not represented in parliament due to election boycotts, but was legal . It went up in April 2012 in the Republican Party.