The Ettajdid Movement (''Movement for Renewal'' ; , ' ; ), also referred to simply as Ettajdid, was a

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, 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 Social Democratic Path (sometimes written as Democratic and Social Path; ; , or al-Massar) is a Centre-left politics, centre-left secularism, secularist political party in Tunisia. It was formed on 1 April 2012, by the merger of the post-communist ...

. 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

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in April 1993, the party adopted a

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economic programme, and it was legalised in November 1993. In the 1994 election, the party won four seats. This increased to five in 1999, 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. After massive protests in January 2011, Ettajdid gained a post for Ahmed Brahim as Minister of Higher Education. For the Constituent assembly election, 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 and some individual members of the Democratic Modernist Pole to form the

. Ettajdid published ''Attariq al Jadid'' (New Path).

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Chamber of Deputies elections

Footnotes

External links

Official website
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