The Ettajdid Movement (''Movement for Renewal'' ; ar, حركة التجديد, ' ; french: Mouvement Ettajdid), also referred to simply as Ettajdid, was a

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, active from 1993 to 2012.

History and profile

Ettajdid evolved out of the old

Tunisian Communist Party The Tunisian Communist Party ( ar, الحزب الشيوعي التونسي ' ; french: Parti Communiste Tunisien) was a Marxist political party in Tunisia. The PCT was founded on 21 May 1934 as the Tunisian federation of the French Communist P ...

when it abandoned its former ideology in 1993. During the Ben Ali rule it was one of the legal, although oppressed opposition parties. After the

Tunisian revolution The Tunisian Revolution, also called the Jasmine Revolution, was an intensive 28-day campaign of civil resistance. It included a series of street demonstrations which took place in Tunisia, and led to the ousting of longtime president Zine El ...

of 2011, it became part of the

Democratic Modernist Pole The Democratic Modernist Pole ( ar, القطب الديمقراطي الحداثي) (french: Pôle démocratique moderniste) (PDM) was a Tunisian political coalition created for the Tunisian Constituent Assembly election of 23 October 2011. The "P ...

alliance and in 2012 it merged into the

Social Democratic Path Social Democratic Path (sometimes written as Democratic and Social Path; ar, المسار الديمقراطي الاجتماعي; french: Voie démocratique et sociale, or al-Massar) is a centre-left secularist political party in Tunisia. It wa ...

. It was led by its First Secretary

Mohamed Harmel Mohamed Harmel (محمد حرمل) (November 1929 – 18 September 2011) was a Tunisian politician. Between 1981 and 1993 he served as First Secretary of the Tunisian Communist Party, and in 2007 he became an honorary president of the Ettajdid M ...

from its creation until 2007 and then by Ahmed Brahim until its dissolution. Adopting its new name and abandoning

communism Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

in April 1993, the party adopted a

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economic programme, and it was legalised in November 1993. In the 1994 election, the party won four seats. This increased to five in 1999, before falling to three in the 2004 election and to two in 2009, making it the smallest of the seven parties represented in the

Tunisian parliament The Assembly of the People's Representatives ( ar, مجلس نواب الشعب ', french: Assemblée des représentants du peuple; ARP) is Tunisia's legislative branch of government. The unicameral Assembly replaced the Constituent Assembly and ...

. After massive protests in January 2011, Ettajdid gained a post for Ahmed Brahim as Minister of Higher Education. For the Constituent assembly election, Ettajdid formed a strongly secularist alliance called

(PDM), of which it was the mainstay. On 1 April 2012, it merged with the Tunisian Labour Party and some individual members of the Democratic Modernist Pole to form the

. Ettajdid published ''Attariq al Jadid'' (New Path).

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Chamber of Deputies elections

Footnotes

External links

Official website
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