Heart of Tunisia ( ar, قلب تونس, Berber: Ul en Tunest, french: Au cœur de la Tunisie) is a

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political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...

founded on 20 June 2019 by lawyer Houda Knani, a former member of the

Free Patriotic Union The Free Patriotic Union ( ar, الاتحاد الوطني الحرّ, translit=el-Itiḥād el-Waṭanī el-Ḥurr; french: Union patriotique libre), known by its French acronym UPL, is a political party in Tunisia. History and profile Establi ...

. The party's candidate for the

2019 Tunisian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Tunisia on 15 September 2019, the second direct vote for the presidency since the 2011 revolution. The elections had originally been planned for 17 and 24 November, but were brought forward after the death of ...

, party head Nabil Karoui, placed second, earning him a spot in the runoff election. On 10 March 2020, 11 members of the party in the parliament announced their resignation from the party and the party's parliamentary bloc. The resignations of almost one third of the party's parliamentarians reduced the number of the party's seats in the parliament from 38 to 27.

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