List of political parties in Tunisia

This is a list of Tunisia's political parties :

Current parties

Political party	Alignment	Chairman
Nidaa Tounes ("Call of Tunisia")	secular	Mohamed Ennaceur
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
Free Patriotic Union	secular, economically liberal	Slim Riahi
Labor Party (PT)	Communist	Hamma Hammami
Democratic Patriots Movement (MouPaD)	Marxist , Pan-Arab	Zied Lakhdhar
Afek Tounes ("Horizons of Tunisia")	secular, liberal	Yassine Brahim
Congress for the Republic (CPR)	left-liberal , secular	Imed daimi
National Constitutional Initiative (IND)	center	Camel Morjane
Ettakatol (Democratic Forum for Work and Freedom; FDTL)	social democratic
Republican Party	secular, liberal
Tunisian Pirate Party	social liberal
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.