Movement of Socialist Democrats

Movement of Socialist Democrats (French Mouvement des démocrates socialistes, Arabic حركة الديمقراطيين الاشتراكيين Harakat al- Dīmuqrāṭiyyīn al - Ishtirākiyyīn; abbreviation MDS) is an opposition social democratic political party in Tunisia, which was founded on 10 June 1978.

However, it was only approved on 19 November 1983 has been the second largest party in the Chamber of Deputies of Tunisia, directly behind the dominant Constitutional Democratic Rally Party, with 16 seats last.

In the parliamentary elections in Tunisia in 1999, the movement of Socialist Democrats, the second largest opposition party with 13 seats in the Tunisian Parliament was. In 2001, the then party chairman Mohamed al Mouadda has been charged with the accusation that he made a pact with the banned radical Islamist group Ennahda. In the parliamentary elections of 2004, the party won 4.6% of the vote and 14 seats. The number of seats increased to 16 in the 2009 election.

In the election for the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia, 2011, the party won just under 1% of the vote and 217 seats in the 2.

Members and former members

• Mustafa Ben Jaafar

• Social Democratic Party
• Tunisian party