Popular Front (Tunisia)
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Arabic الجبهة الشعبية Popular Front |
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| Party leader | Hamma Hammami |
| founding | October 7, 2012 |
| Alignment |
Socialism secularism |
| Colours) | red |
| Parliament seats |
15/217 |
| Website | www.front-populaire.org |
The Popular Front ( Arabic الجبهة الشعبية, DMG al-ǧabha aš-šaʿbiyya , French Front populaire ) or Popular Front for the realization of the goals of the revolution (الجبهة الشعبية لتحقيق أهداف الثورة / al-ǧabha aš-šaʿbiyya li-taḥqīq ahdāf aṯ-ṯaura ; Front popular pour la réalisation des objectifs de la révolution ; FP for short) is a left party alliance in Tunisia that consists of a number of parties and several independents. It was represented by 15 of 217 members in parliament from 2014 to 2019 , but lost all but one seat in the 2019 election .
It was founded on October 7, 2012. The parties represented in the Constituent Assembly, the Tunisian Labor Party , the Democratic Patriots Movement (MOUPAD or Watad ), the People's Movement and the Party of the Progressive Struggle, as well as the extra-parliamentary parties Green Tunisia , the Iraqi and Syrian- oriented branches of the Baath Party and other small left parties took part revolutionary-socialist or pan-arabic character. The Popular Front clearly positioned itself both against the Islamist Ennahda party, which won the first free elections in 2011, and against the reorganizing forces of the old regime of the ousted President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and his disbanded RCD .
The Popular Front spokesman was Chokri Belaïd of the Democratic Patriots Movement. Since his assassination on February 6, 2013, it has been Hamma Hammami of the Labor Party. In July 2013, Mohamed Brahmi , another politician from the front, was murdered. The government accused radical Salafists, while Brahmi's supporters blamed the ruling Islamist party.
In the first regular parliamentary election according to the new constitution in October 2014, the Popular Front appeared for the first time with joint lists and was able to significantly increase its share. She was fourth strongest with 15 seats. In the first round of the following presidential election , her candidate Hamma Hammami came third with 7.8%.
Members
Member parties
- Workers 'Party (PT; formerly Tunisian Communist Workers' Party , PCOT), led by Hamma Hammami - Marxist-Leninist
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Unity Party of Democratic Patriots ( Watad ), emerged from the merger of:
- Democratic Patriots Movement (MOUPAD), led by Chokri Belaïd until his assassination in February 2013 - Marxist, pan-Arab
- Democratic and Patriotic Labor Party (PTPD), led by Mohamed Jmour - Marxist-Leninist
- Ba'ath movement led by Othmen Bel Haj Amor - Ba'athist , part of the Iraqi-led Ba'ath movement
- Volksstrom , founded in early July 2013 by Mohamed Brahmi after he left the popular movement and shortly before his murder, led by Zouhair Hamdi and Brahmi's widow Mbarka Aouainia
- Al-Qotb, led by Riadh Ben Fadhel, has been part of the Popular Front since June 2013
- League of Workers' Left (LGO) led by Jalel Ben Brik Zoghlami - Trotskyist
- People's Party for Freedom and Progress (PPLP), led by Jalloul Ben Azzouna - socialist
- Arab Democratic Vanguard Party , led by Kheireddine Souabni - Baathist, part of the Syrian-led Baath movement
- Unionist Popular Front , led by Amor Mejri - pan-Arab Marxist
Former member parties
The following parties were temporarily part of the Popular Front, but have left it again:
- Movement of Socialist Democrats - Social Democratic
- Popular movement , led by Mohamed Brahmi until he left in July 2013 - Nasserist
- Progressive Struggle Party (PLP) led by Mohamed Lassoued - Marxist-Leninist
- Tunisie verte , run by Abdelkader Zitouni - Greens
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Alain Baron: Tunisia - A new stage in left regroupment. In: International Viewpoint Online Magazine, No. 451, August 2012.
- ↑ Popular Front Opposition Quits Tunisian Assembly After Chokri Belaid's Murder. In: Huffington Post. February 6, 2013, accessed February 21, 2013 .
- ↑ Peaceful Protests - Terrorist Suspect killed. FAZ.net, August 4, 2013.