Flow of love

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تيار المحبة
flow of love
People's petition logo
Party leader Mohamed Hechmi Hamdi
Party leader Mohamed Hechmi Hamdi
founding March 17, 2011
Alignment Social conservatism
regionalism
populism
Colours) Green yellow
Parliament seats
2/217

The current of love ( Arabic تيار المحبة, DMG Tayyār al-Maḥabba , French Courant de l'amour ), until May 2013 popular petition for freedom, justice and development ( Arabic العريضة الشعبية للحرية والعدالة والتنمية, DMG al-ʿArīḍa aš-Šaʿbīya li-l-Ḥurrīya wa-l-ʿAdāla wa-t-Tanmiya ) or popular petition for short (Aridha Chaabia) , is a Tunisian party that is officially organized as an independent political initiative. It was founded in March 2011, after the Tunisian revolution , by the media entrepreneur Mohamed Hechmi Hamdi . The party primarily advocates the socio-economic development of Hechmi Hamdi's home government of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia.

Political program

The party has a populist orientation. The movement's founder, millionaire Hechmi Hamdi, lives in London , where he wrote several columns for the daily Asharq al-Awsat before founding his television channel al-Mustaqilla ("The Independent") in 1999 . Originally a follower of Islamist tendencies, Hamdi quickly became an ally of Ben Ali's regime. Hechmi Hamdi is accused of maintaining close contact with Tunisia's fled President Ben Ali , but he himself denounces such accusations as defamation.

In the campaign leading up to the October 23 constituent assembly election, the party promised free access to health care and an allowance of 200 Tunisian dinars for each of the 500,000 unemployed jobseekers in Tunisia. Hechmi Hamdi has personally committed to throw 2 billion of his own wealth into the state budget.

history

The People's Petition for Freedom, Justice and Development was founded on March 17, 2011 after the overthrow of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.

Several candidates from the popular petition won seats in the Constituent Assembly on October 23, 2011 , making the group the third largest political force in the country with 27 out of 217 seats. The unexpected success also results from the fact that Hechmi Hamdi, who comes from the south of Tunisia, is very well received by the population of the southern and central governorates, as so far only representatives from Tunis and the Mediterranean coast have dominated Tunisian politics.

However, their results were immediately invalidated due to several rule violations against the regulations of the election campaigns: The al-Mustakilla Canal gave massive support to the popular petition's campaign. Therefore, several complaints against the popular petition were lodged with the ISIE electoral commission, demanding the cancellation of the list and its seats. On October 27, the ISIE excluded the list of the popular petition in six constituencies because of financial irregularities. The party leader Hechmi Hamdi then called on his elected candidates to resign and boycott the assembly, which he withdrew on October 28 and announced that the representatives of the list would work in the parliamentary opposition. Following the appeal of the people's petition to the Administrative Court, the decision of the electoral commission was overturned and seven of the deleted candidates were reinstated by the judgment of the court.

In addition to the popular petition for freedom, justice and development, which was only registered as a citizens' movement and electoral list, but not as a formal party, Hechmi Hamdi founded the "Party of Progressive Conservatives" (PPC). According to Hechmi Hamdi, who headed both organizations at the same time, this had "exactly the same program" as the people's petition.

In May 2013, Hechmi Hamdi renamed his movement Tayyar al-Mahabba or “Current of Love”. In the first regular election under the new constitution in October 2014, she received only two of the 217 seats. In the subsequent presidential election , Hechmi Hamdi was eliminated in fourth place with 5.75%.

Individual evidence

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