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Tunisia

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Political parties in Tunisia lists political parties in Tunisia. Tunisia is a dominant-party State with the Democratic Constitutional Rally in power. Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power.

Contents 1 The parties 1.1 Ruling Party 1.2 Oppositional parliamentary Parties 1.3 Other opposition party 1.4 Past parties 1.5 Illegal Parties 2 See also

[edit] The parties

[edit] Ruling Party

• Constitutional Democratic Rally (Rassemblement Constitutionelle et Démocratique, RCD)

[edit] Oppositional parliamentary Parties

• Movement of Socialist Democrats (Mouvement des Démocrates Socialistes/Hizb al-Dimocratiyin al-Ishtirakiyin)
• Party of People's Unity (Parti de l'Unité Populaire)
• Unionist Democratic Union (Union Démocratique Unioniste )
• Renewal Movement Ettajdid (Mouvement de la Rénovation-Ettajdid) or Democratic Initiative Movement (Mouvement Initiative Démocratique)
• Social Liberal Party (Parti Social-Libéral)
• Green Party for Progress (Parti des Verts pour le Progrès)

[edit] Other opposition party

• Progressive Democratic Party
• Liberal Democratic Party

[edit] Past parties

• Destour, founded 1920; split in 1934 resulted in the Neo Destour.
• Neo Destour, which became Parti Socialiste Destourien (PSD) in 1964.
• Parti Socialiste Destourien (PSD), which became Rassemblement Constitutionel Democratique (RCD) in 1988.

[edit] Illegal Parties

• Renaissance Party (Hizb al-Nahda/Parti de la Renaissance)
• Tunisian Workers' Communist Party

[edit] See also

• Index of political parties to browse parties by name
• List of political parties to browse parties by country
• List of political parties by ideology to browse parties by name
• Membership of internationals to browse parties by membership of internationals

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