The Ettajdid Movement (''Movement for Renewal'' ; ar, حركة التجديد, ' ; french: Mouvement Ettajdid), also referred to simply as Ettajdid, was a
centre-left secularist political party in
Tunisia, active from 1993 to 2012.
History and profile
Ettajdid evolved out of the old
Tunisian Communist Party 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 of 2011, it became part of the
Democratic Modernist Pole alliance and in 2012 it merged into the
Social Democratic Path. It was led by its First Secretary
Mohamed Harmel from its creation until 2007 and then by
Ahmed Brahim until its dissolution.
Adopting its new name and abandoning
communism in April 1993, the party adopted a
social economic programme, and it was legalised in November 1993. In the
1994 election, the party won four seats. This increased to five
in 1999
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, 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
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After
massive protests in January 2011, Ettajdid gained a post for Ahmed Brahim as Minister of Higher Education.
For the
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, Ettajdid formed a strongly secularist alliance called
Democratic Modernist Pole (PDM), of which it was the mainstay.
On 1 April 2012, it merged with the
Tunisian Labour Party
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and some individual members of the Democratic Modernist Pole to form the
Social Democratic Path.
Ettajdid published ''Attariq al Jadid'' (New Path).
Electoral history
Presidential elections
Chamber of Deputies elections
Footnotes
External links
Official website{{Tunisian political parties
1993 establishments in Tunisia
2012 disestablishments in Tunisia
Defunct political parties in Tunisia
Political parties established in 1993
Political parties disestablished in 2012
Secularism in Tunisia
Socialist parties in Tunisia