List of political parties in Tunisia

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This article lists political parties in Tunisia. Tunisia was a dominant-party state of the Constitutional Democratic Rally ("RCD" from its French language initials) before the Tunisian revolution. In the aftermath of the revolution the RCD was dissolved by the new state authorities and over 70 new political parties formed.

The parties

The following parties opposition parties exist de jure and/or de facto. On January 20, 2011 the cabinet of the interim government recognized all previously banned parties, with the exception of Hizb ut-Tahrir and a few other parties.

Legalized before the Tunisian revolution

• Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties (FDTL) (التكتل الديمقراطي من أجل العمل والحريات, Forum démocratique pour le travail et les libertés)
• Ettajdid Movement (Renewal Movement, حركة التجديد, Mouvement Ettajdid)
• Green Party for Progress (حزب الخضر للتقدم, Parti des verts pour le progrès)
• Movement of Socialist Democrats (حركة الديمقراطيين الاشتراكيين, Mouvement des démocrates socialistes)
• Party of People's Unity (حزب الوحدة الشعبية, Parti de l'unité populaire)
• Social Liberal Party (الحزب الاجتماعي التحرري, Parti social-libéral)
• Unionist Democratic Union (الاتحاد الديمقراطي الوحدوي, Union démocratique unioniste)

Legalized after the Tunisian revolution

• Ba'ath Movement (PBT) (حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي التونسي, Parti Baath tunisien)
• Congress for the Republic (CPR) (المؤتمر من أجل الجمهورية, Congrès pour la République)
• Democratic Patriots' Movement (Arabic: حركة الوطنيون الديمقراطيون‎)
• Hizb ut-Tahrir (Liberation Party, حزب التحرير)
• Homeland Party (حزب الوطن, Al Watan)
• Maghrebi Republican Party (الحزب الجمهوري المغاربي, Parti républicain maghrébin)
• Ennahda Movement (حركة النهضة, Mouvement de la Renaissance, also Renaissance Party)
• Patriotic and Democratic Labour Party (حزب العمل الوطني الديمقراطي, Parti du travail patriotique et démocratique)
• Republican Party.
• Tunisian Pirate Party (حزب القراصنة التونسي, Parti pirate tunisien)
• Workers' Party (حزب العمال, Parti des travailleurs), formerly the Tunisian Workers' Communist Party (PCOT)

Past parties

• Destour, founded 1920; split in 1934 resulted in the Neo Destour.
• Neo Destour, which became the PSD in 1964.
• Socialist Destourian Party (PSD), which became the RCD in 1988.
• Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD). Dissolved 2011.
• Tunisian Communist Party. Became the Ettajdid Movement.
• Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) (الحزب الديمقراطي التقدمي, Parti démocrate progressiste). Merged into the Republican Party.
• Afek Tounes. Merged into the Republican Party.

Political alliances

• Democratic Modernist Pole (PDM) (Pôle démocratique moderniste)
• Popular Front

See also

• Politics of Tunisia
• List of ruling political parties by country