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Tunisian Political Parties
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SELECT LEFTIST PARTIES IN TUNISIA
Tunisian Communist
Workers Party
(PCOT)/ ل ) ' & % اب " !
. % / , 0 1ا .- , + * % ا
Marxist-Leninist,
Hoxhaist; pro-laïciteHamma Hammami
Socialist Left Party
(PSG)/ . 6ا 3 4 / 5اب " % 2ا
ير ) % + 1اMarxist-Leninist,
communist; pro-laïciteMohamed Kilani
Ettajdid/ ;> ; : / % ا 69 5 ! Center left, ex-
communistAhmed Brahim
Party Orientation, Ideology LeadershipFounded
1986
2006
1993
Marxist-Leninist; Hoxhaist, anti-
Revisionist; pro-laïcité; student, workerfollowing; leadership from rural, peasant
origins; working relationships with
Islamists (Nahda); strong presence inUGTT; very active during uprising; 18
October alliance with PDP, FDTL and
Islamists; member of 14 January Front;member of International Conference of
Marxist–Leninist Parties and
Organizations (Unity & Struggle)
Image (Leader ) Image (Party)
1983
Democratic
Progressive Party
(PDP)/ .< ا %; < ' = 5اب " % 2ا
.? ; = / % ا
Social democratic,
center leftMaya Jribi
1994
Democratic Forum for
Labor and Democracy(FDTL)/ .< ا %; < ' = 5ا % / @ / Aا
?B أ D A ا % & ' A وا % 2 5 <( تSocial democratic Mustapha Ben Jaafar
Socialist, communist Abderrazak Hammami
Notes
Ex-communists; descendent of historicPCT (f. 1920); 2 seats in Chamber of
Deputies under Ben Ali; fielded
presidential candidates in 2004 and2009; in grouping with PTPD and PSG,
the National Initiative for Democracy
and Progress (INDP); center left,advocates "the total separation of
religion and state and the rejection of
any use of religion in politics”; indiscussions for join list for constituent
assembly elections with FDTL
Social democratic breakaway from
MDS; first party recognized after 1988;no national-level participation; founding
congress in 2009; Advisory member of
Socialists International; 18 Octoberalliance with PCOT, PDP and Islamists;
advisory member of Socialist
International; in discussions for join listfor constituent assembly elections with
Ettajdid
Social democratic; formerly the
Progressive Socialist Rally (RSP),Marxist, leftist; ideology revised in late
1990s, early 2000s; name change in
200; founded by Ahmed Nejib Chebbi;many former, current moderate leftists,
some "progressive Islamists”; popular in
urban centers in northern Tunisia,strong middle-class following
2005
Patriotic and
Democratic Labor
Party (PTPD)/ % & ' Aاب " !
.< ا %; < ' = 5ا . % , > Gا
1978
Movement of
Democratic Socialists(MDS)/ > + Hا %; < ' = 5ا 69 5 !
6 + Hا 3 4 / 5ا
Social democraticAhmed
Khaskhoussi
Marxist leftist; founders among leadersof the General Union of Tunisian
Students in late 1970s; heavily
intellectual leadership, labor oriented,secularist, anti-imperialist; close links to
historic PCT, Ettajdid, leftist elements in
UGET; in grouping with Ettajdid andPSG, the National Initiative for
Democracy and Progress (INDP)
1981/83
Party for Popular
Unity (PUP)/ ة ;! , % ا 69 5 ! % * & J + 9ا
Socialist, Arabnationalist Mohamed Bouchiha
Authorization pre-January,2011?
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
2001 No
Congress for theRepublic (CPR)/ K L M ' 5ا
?B أ D A ا % : ' N , ر <9 Center left Moncef Merzouki
Center left party banned under Ben Ali
with strong links to the European left;member of the 18 October alliance with
PCOT, PDP, Islamists, et al; strong
reputation for opposition to Ben Ali;secularist; supports renegotiation of EU
association agreement
Arab nationalist, left wing party formed
after internal break in Ahmed BenSalah’s Movement of Popular Unity (f.
1978), itself a breakaway faction of the
Neo- Destour; it was tolerated underBen Ali and had seats in parliament and
fielded Mohamed Belhaj Amor as a
presidential candidate in 1999; not amember of Socialist International
Newspaper
al-Wahdah (Unity)
?
al-Badil (The
Alternative)
Afaaq al-Ishtaraki (The Socialist
Perspective)
Attariq al-Jadid (A
New Path)
al-Muwwatun (The
Citizen)
al- Iraada (The Will)
al-Mustaqbal (The
Future)
al-Mawqaf (The
Position)
?Formed from splits in the UDU and
MUL; Arab nationalist and center left
tendenciesFayçal Zemni
Center left; Arab
nationalist; socialist
Party of the ModernLeft(PGM)/ ر ) % + 1اب " !
% 2 ; <O No2011ا
1981 No
Movement of Patriots
and Democrats (MPD/ al-Watad)/ % , > G + Hا 69 5 !
> + Hا %; < ' = 5ا
Marxist-Leninist; Arabnationalist
Chokri Belaid
Marxist-Leninist party banned under
Ben Ali; has called for an alliance ofsecular leftists to counter the Islamist
tendency; calls for the creation of a
parliamentary system; Arab nationalistleanings; strong student presence
?
?
Leftist splinter from PUP; founded by Azzouna (head of League of FreeWriters, ex-PUP, UGTA activist), MounirKachoukh and other PUPdissenters;focused on labor and
judiciary reforms (especially rights toassembly, association, religion); calls foran “overhaul” of the education system
Jelloul AzzounaSocialistNo
Popular Party for
Liberty and Progress
(PPLP)/ . % * & Jاب " % 2ا
% P 2 5 <9 وا % / = ; م2011
Marxist-Leninist,socialist
Mongi Hammami
Marxist-Leninist party, founded by
professors Mongi Hammami andMohamed Lassoued (the partyʼs main
Marxist-Leninist ideologue); founding
segments active in student movements,UGET; secularist; “anti-imperialist” Arab
nationalist foreign affairs outlook; calls
for variety of tax, land, judiciary, tradeunion and press reforms
?
Party of Progressive
Struggle (PLP)/ ب " !
.? ; = / % ال ) % G Rا
No2011
Leftist breakaway from Neo-Destour;
ran in multiparty elections in 1981;
signed 7 November, 1988 "pact" withgovernment, Nahda, et al re:
participation; rife with internal divisions,
breakaways and coups during 1990sand 2000s; leadership supported Ben
Ali candidacy in 1994, 1999, 2004 and
2009 under leadership of IsmaïlBoulahya faction at expense of
dissenting faction led by Mohamed
Moada; internal dissenters frequentlydetained or harassed; breakaway
faction led by Ben Jaafar founded
FDTL; after 2010/2011 revolution,Boulahya replaced by Taïeb Mohsni,
though dissenting factions oppose this;
party congress scheduled for May
Marxist-Leninist breakaway from PCOT,established by faction of PCOT
founders; pro- laïcité; rejects all alliancewith Islamists; strong presence inUGTT; in Committee for the Protection
of the Goals of the Revolution withEttajdid, the National Initiative for
Democracy and Progress (INDP)
No
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