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 country is now a multiparty state. Although there are two numerically major parties, no single party has a realistic chance of governing alone.

Parties represented in the Assembly of the Representatives of the People

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|Ennahda Movement<small><br/><br/>Ḥarakat an-Nahḍa, <br/></small>

|Rached Ghannouchi

|Right-wing

|Social conservatism<br/>Economic liberalism<br/>Islamic democracy

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|Heart of Tunisia<small><br/><br/><br/></small>

|Nabil Karoui

|Centre

|Bourguibism<br>Populism<br>Secularism

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|Democratic Current<small><br/><br/>at-Tayyār ad-Dīmuqrāṭī<br/></small>

|Ghazi Chaouachi

|Centre-left

|Social democracy<br/>Progressivism<br/>Nationalism<br/>Pan-Arabism

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|Opposed

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|Dignity Coalition<small><br/><br/>Iʾtilāf al-Karāma<br/></small>

|Seifeddine Makhlouf

|Far-right

|Islamism<br/>Francophobia<br/>Social conservatism

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|Opposed

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|Free Destourian Party (PDL)<small><br/><br/>al-Ḥizb ad-Dustūrī al-Ḥurr, <br/></small>

|Abir Moussi

|Big tent

|Tunisian nationalism<br>Bourguibism<br>Secularism

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|People's Movement<small><br/><br/>Ḥarakat aš-Šaʿb<br/></small>

|Zouhair Maghzaoui

|Left-wing

|Secularism<br/>Democratic socialism<br/>Nasserism<br/>Arab nationalism

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|Tahya Tounes<small><br/><br/>Taḥyā Tūnis, <br/></small>

|Youssef Chahed

|Centre

|Bourguibism<br>Secularism<br/>Liberalism

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|Machrouu Tounes (MPT)<small><br/><br/>Mašrūʿ Tūnis, <br/></small>

|Mohsen Marzouk

|Centre-left to<br/>centre-right

|Secularism<br>Bourguibism

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|Errahma<small><br/><br/>Ḥizb ar-Raḥma, <br/></small>

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|Islamism<br/>Islamic democracy<br/>Religious conservatism

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|Republican People's Union<small><br/><br/>al-Aitihad al-Shaebiu al-Jumhuriu<br/></small>

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|Neo-Bourguibism

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|Tunisian Alternative<small><br/></small>

|Mehdi Jomaa

|Centre

|Liberalism

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|Nidaa Tounes<small><br/><br/>Ḥarakat Nidā’ Tūnis, <br/></small>

|Khemaies Jhinaoui

|Centre to<br/>centre-left

|Bourguibism<br>Social democracy<br>Third Way<br>Secularism

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|Afek Tounes<small><br/><br/>Āfāq Tūnis, </small>

|Yassine Brahim

|Centre-right

|Liberalism<br>Secularism

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|Popular Front<small><br/><br/></small>

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|Left-wing to far-left

|Socialism<br/>Secularism<br/>Arab nationalism<br/>Pan-Arabism

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|Farmers' Voice Party<small><br/><br/></small>

|Fayçal Tebbini

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|Green League<small><br/><br/></small>

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|Current of Love<small><br/><br/></small>

|Mohamed Hechmi Hamdi

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|Populism<br>Islamic democracy<br>Social conservatism<br>Regionalism

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| <small><br/><br/>al-Aitihad ad-Diymuqratiu al-Aijtimaeiu<br/></small>

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|Democratic socialism<br/>Progressivism

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|Chokri Balti

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Other parties

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The following 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, or Ettakatol)
  • Ettajdid Movement, or Renewal Movement
  • Green Party for Progress (PVP, , )
  • Movement of Socialist Democrats (MDS)
  • Popular Unity Party (PUP)
  • Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), now merged into the Republican Party.
  • Social Liberal Party (PSL)
  • Unionist Democratic Union (UDU)
  • Liberal Democratic Social Party (')

Legalized after the Tunisian revolution

  • El Amen Party
  • Congress for the Republic (CPR)
  • Cultural Unionist Nation Party
  • Democratic Alliance Party
  • Democratic Patriots' Unified Party, formerly the Democratic Patriots' Movement
  • Democratic Social Nation Party
  • Equity and Equality Party
  • Free Patriotic Union
  • Future Tunisia Party (, )
  • Green Tunisia Party
  • Hizb ut-Tahrir or the Liberation Party
  • Homeland Party or Al Watan
  • Al Iklaa Party
  • Initiative
  • Justice and Development Party
  • Maghrebi Republican Party (PRM)
  • Movement of the Republic
  • New Destour Party
  • Patriotic and Democratic Labour Party (, )
  • Parti Democrate Liberal
  • Patriotic Construction Party
  • Pirate Party
  • Popular Unity Movement
  • Popular Unity Party
  • Progressive People's Party
  • Reform and Development Party
  • Reform Front Party
  • Republican Party
  • Social Democratic Path
  • Socialist Party, formerly the Left Socialist Party
  • Third Alternative
  • Third Republic الجمهورية الثالثة
  • Tunisia Forward
  • Tunisian Ba'ath Movement (, ')
  • Tunisian Movement for Freedom and Dignity
  • Tunisian National Front
  • Tunisian Nationalist Party
  • Tunisian Pirate Party
  • Voice of the People of Tunisia
  • Wafa Movement
  • Al-Watan Party
  • Workers' Party (PT), formerly the Tunisian Workers' Communist Party (PCOT)

Defunct 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 in 2011.
  • Tunisian Communist Party. Became the Ettajdid Movement.
  • Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), merged into the Republican Party.
  • Ettajdid Movement. Merged into the Social Democratic Path.
  • Free Patriotic Union. Merged into Nidaa Tounes.
  • National Destourian Initiative. Merged into Long Live Tunisia.

See also

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

References