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Tunisian Political Parties

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SELECT LEFTIST PARTIES IN TUNISIA

Tunisian Communist

Workers Party

(PCOT)/  ل  ) '  & % اب " !  

 .  % /  ,  0 1ا .-  ,  +  * % ا

Marxist-Leninist,

Hoxhaist; pro-laïciteHamma Hammami

Socialist Left Party

(PSG)/   . 6ا 3 4 /  5اب "   % 2ا  

ير  )  % +  1اMarxist-Leninist,

communist; pro-laïciteMohamed Kilani

Ettajdid/   ;>  ; :  / % ا 69  5 ! Center left, ex-

communistAhmed Brahim

Party Orientation, Ideology LeadershipFounded

1986

2006

1993

Marxist-Leninist; Hoxhaist, anti-

Revisionist; pro-laïcité; student, workerfollowing; leadership from rural, peasant

origins; working relationships with

Islamists (Nahda); strong presence inUGTT; very active during uprising; 18

October alliance with PDP, FDTL and

Islamists; member of 14 January Front;member of International Conference of

Marxist–Leninist Parties and

Organizations (Unity & Struggle)

Image (Leader ) Image (Party)

1983

Democratic

Progressive Party

(PDP)/   .< ا  %;  < '  =  5اب "   % 2ا  

 .?  ; =  / % ا

Social democratic,

center leftMaya Jribi

1994

Democratic Forum for

Labor and Democracy(FDTL)/   .< ا  %;  < '  =  5ا  % /  @  /  Aا  

 ?B أ D A ا % &  '  A  وا % 2  5  <( تSocial democratic Mustapha Ben Jaafar

Socialist, communist Abderrazak Hammami

Notes

Ex-communists; descendent of historicPCT (f. 1920); 2 seats in Chamber of

Deputies under Ben Ali; fielded

presidential candidates in 2004 and2009; in grouping with PTPD and PSG,

the National Initiative for Democracy

and Progress (INDP); center left,advocates "the total separation of

religion and state and the rejection of

any use of religion in politics”; indiscussions for join list for constituent

assembly elections with FDTL

Social democratic breakaway from

MDS; first party recognized after 1988;no national-level participation; founding

congress in 2009; Advisory member of

Socialists International; 18 Octoberalliance with PCOT, PDP and Islamists;

advisory member of Socialist

International; in discussions for join listfor constituent assembly elections with

Ettajdid

Social democratic; formerly the

Progressive Socialist Rally (RSP),Marxist, leftist; ideology revised in late

1990s, early 2000s; name change in

200; founded by Ahmed Nejib Chebbi;many former, current moderate leftists,

some "progressive Islamists”; popular in

urban centers in northern Tunisia,strong middle-class following

2005

Patriotic and

Democratic Labor

Party (PTPD)/    % &  '  Aاب " !  

 .< ا  %;  < '  =  5ا .  % ,  > Gا

1978

Movement of

Democratic Socialists(MDS)/    > + Hا  %;  < '  =  5ا 69  5 !  

  6 + Hا 3 4 /  5ا

Social democraticAhmed

Khaskhoussi

Marxist leftist; founders among leadersof the General Union of Tunisian

Students in late 1970s; heavily

intellectual leadership, labor oriented,secularist, anti-imperialist; close links to

historic PCT, Ettajdid, leftist elements in

UGET; in grouping with Ettajdid andPSG, the National Initiative for

Democracy and Progress (INDP)

1981/83

Party for Popular

Unity (PUP)/  ة ;!  , % ا 69  5 !    % *  &  J  + 9ا

Socialist, Arabnationalist Mohamed Bouchiha

Authorization pre-January,2011?

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

2001 No

Congress for theRepublic (CPR)/    K L  M '  5ا  

 ?B أ D A ا % :  '  N  ,  ر <9 Center left Moncef Merzouki

Center left party banned under Ben Ali

with strong links to the European left;member of the 18 October alliance with

PCOT, PDP, Islamists, et al; strong

reputation for opposition to Ben Ali;secularist; supports renegotiation of EU

association agreement

Arab nationalist, left wing party formed

after internal break in Ahmed BenSalah’s Movement of Popular Unity (f.

1978), itself a breakaway faction of the

Neo- Destour; it was tolerated underBen Ali and had seats in parliament and

fielded Mohamed Belhaj Amor as a

presidential candidate in 1999; not amember of Socialist International

Newspaper

al-Wahdah (Unity)

?

al-Badil (The

Alternative)

Afaaq al-Ishtaraki (The Socialist

Perspective)

Attariq al-Jadid (A

New Path)

al-Muwwatun (The

Citizen)

al- Iraada (The Will)

al-Mustaqbal (The

Future)

al-Mawqaf (The

Position)

?Formed from splits in the UDU and

MUL; Arab nationalist and center left

tendenciesFayçal Zemni

Center left; Arab

nationalist; socialist

Party of the ModernLeft(PGM)/  ر  )  % +  1اب " !  

 % 2 ;  <O No2011ا

1981 No

Movement of Patriots

and Democrats (MPD/ al-Watad)/    % ,  > G  + Hا 69  5 !  

  > + Hا  %;  < '  =  5ا

Marxist-Leninist; Arabnationalist

Chokri Belaid

Marxist-Leninist party banned under

Ben Ali; has called for an alliance ofsecular leftists to counter the Islamist

tendency; calls for the creation of a

parliamentary system; Arab nationalistleanings; strong student presence

?

?

Leftist splinter from PUP; founded by Azzouna (head of League of FreeWriters, ex-PUP, UGTA activist), MounirKachoukh and other PUPdissenters;focused on labor and

 judiciary reforms (especially rights toassembly, association, religion); calls foran “overhaul” of the education system

Jelloul AzzounaSocialistNo

Popular Party for

Liberty and Progress

(PPLP)/   .  % *  &  Jاب "   % 2ا  

 % P  2  5  <9  وا % /  = ; م2011

Marxist-Leninist,socialist

Mongi Hammami

Marxist-Leninist party, founded by

professors Mongi Hammami andMohamed Lassoued (the partyʼs main

Marxist-Leninist ideologue); founding

segments active in student movements,UGET; secularist; “anti-imperialist” Arab

nationalist foreign affairs outlook; calls

for variety of tax, land, judiciary, tradeunion and press reforms

?

Party of Progressive

Struggle (PLP)/  ب " !  

 .?  ; =  / % ال  )  % G  Rا  

No2011

Leftist breakaway from Neo-Destour;

ran in multiparty elections in 1981;

signed 7 November, 1988 "pact" withgovernment, Nahda, et al re:

participation; rife with internal divisions,

breakaways and coups during 1990sand 2000s; leadership supported Ben

Ali candidacy in 1994, 1999, 2004 and

2009 under leadership of IsmaïlBoulahya faction at expense of

dissenting faction led by Mohamed

Moada; internal dissenters frequentlydetained or harassed; breakaway

faction led by Ben Jaafar founded

FDTL; after 2010/2011 revolution,Boulahya replaced by Taïeb Mohsni,

though dissenting factions oppose this;

party congress scheduled for May

Marxist-Leninist breakaway from PCOT,established by faction of PCOT

founders; pro- laïcité; rejects all alliancewith Islamists; strong presence inUGTT; in Committee for the Protection

of the Goals of the Revolution withEttajdid, the National Initiative for

Democracy and Progress (INDP)

No

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