Ettajdid Movement
The Ettajdid Movement (Arabic حركة التجديد Harakat at- Tajdīd, French Mouvement Ettajdid, "Movement for Renewal" ), also referred to simply as Ettajdid, was a moderate left and secular party in Tunisia.
She walked out in April 1993 from the Tunisian Communist Party after it had filed its former ideology. During the presidency of Zine el- Abidine Ben Ali, the party was one of the few legal opposition parties, but was hampered by government organs. After the Tunisian revolution 2011 she was part of her electoral alliance led Democratic Modernist Pole. In April 2012, they merged with other ingredients of the pole to the Social Democratic way.
From its foundation to 2007 was Mohamed Harmel, then Ahmed Brahim First Secretary of the Party.
Ettajdid published the party newspaper at- Tariq al - Jadid ( " New Path "). Your party color was blue.
History
At its party congress on 22 and 23 April 1993, the Tunisian Communist Party decided to give up their ideology and to transform into the Ettajdid movement. First Secretary of the Party was Mohamed Harmel, who had held this office before starting at 1981 in the Communist Party. The new party received in the same year, the approval by the Ministry of Interior. Instead of communism, they now sought a social market economy and pursued a center-left line. In the parliamentary elections in Tunisia in 1994, the party won four seats. This increased to five seats in the parliamentary election in 1999, before it fell to three again at the 2004 election.
Ahmed Brahim in 2007 he became the operational management, Mohamed Harmel remained until his death in 2011 only of protocol Chairman. The parliamentary representation was after the 2009 election again back to just two seats. This eventually made the party to the smallest of the seven represented in the Tunisian parliamentary parties. In the concurrent presidential election, Ahmed Brahim was the only real opposition candidate. The other antretenden against Ben Ali candidates belonged to the system arranged satellite parties of the ruling RCD. Government bodies and state-affiliated media made Brahims campaign nearly impossible and ineffective by preventing gatherings and allowed no media presence. Ultimately, he won only 1.6% of the vote.
After the flight of Ben Ali in Tunisia, following the revolutionary events in January 2011 Brahim was appointed on 17 January as Minister of Higher Education in the Transitional National Government. For the election to the Constituent Assembly Ettajdid formed a decidedly secular alliance called Democratic Modernist Pole (PDM ). This moved significantly during the election campaign position against the Islamist Ennahda party and addressed the allegedly threatening Islamization of the country. When choosing the block cut off considerably weaker than generally expected and won only 5 of the 217 seats in the Constituent Assembly. In April 2012 Ettajdid founded the new party Social Democratic way together with the smaller Tunisian Workers' Party and previously non-party members of the Democratic Modernist Pole.