The Democratic Patriots' Unified Party ( ar, حزب الوطنيين الديمقراطيين الموحد), formerly the Democratic Patriots' Movement, is a

communist party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...

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. Established in 1981, the movement was only legalised in 2011 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 ...

. The movement primarily advocates a

parliamentary system A parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democratic governance of a state (or subordinate entity) where the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from its ability to command the support ("confidence") of the ...

, the balanced development of the

peasant A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasants ...

ry and

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, and campaigns against the exploitation of the

working class The working class (or labouring class) comprises those engaged in manual-labour occupations or industrial work, who are remunerated via waged or salaried contracts. Working-class occupations (see also " Designation of workers by collar colou ...

es of Tunisia. In the

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, they won one seat in the

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, Mongi Rahoui from Jendouba Constituency. In October 2012, the party formed a leftist

coalition A coalition is a group formed when two or more people or groups temporarily work together to achieve a common goal. The term is most frequently used to denote a formation of power in political or economical spaces. Formation According to ''A Gui ...

, the

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, with the Workers' Party, the Tunisian Green Party, the

Movement of Socialist Democrats The Movement of Socialist Democrats ( ar, حركة الديمقراطيين الاشتراكيين, ' ; french: Mouvement des démocrates socialistes, MDS, also translated as "Socialist Democrats Movement") is a political party in Tunisia. The MD ...

, the

Tunisian Ba'ath Movement The Tunisian Ba'ath Movement ( ar, حركة البعث التونسي ''Haraket Al-Ba'ath Al-Tounisi''; French: ''Mouvement Baath tunisien'') is a political party in Tunisia. It is the Tunisian regional branch of the Iraqi-led Ba'ath Party. H ...

(an Iraqi-led branch of the Ba'ath Party), and other Progressive parties. The Movement is strongly

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. Its secretary-general,

Chokri Belaid Chokri Belaïd ( ar, شكري بلعيد, Shukrī Bil‘īd; 26 November 1964 – 6 February 2013), also transliterated as Shokri Belaïd, was a Tunisian politician and lawyer who was an opposition leader with the left-secular Democratic Pa ...

, was shot dead on 6 February 2013.

References

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