Popular Petition
The People's Petition for Freedom, Justice and Development (French Pétition populaire pour la liberté, la justice et le développement, Arabic العريضة الشعبية للحرية والعدالة والتنمية, DMG al - ʿ Arida aš - Ša ʿ Biya li - l - hurriya wa-l - ʿ Adala wa - t- tanmiya ), abbreviated people's petition or Al Aridha Chaabia, is a Tunisian party that is officially organized as an independent political initiative.
Policy program
The ideology of the People's petition is populism. The founder of the People's petition, the millionaire Mohamed Hashim Hamdi from the government of Sidi Bouzid, resides in London, where he wrote a number of columns in the daily newspaper Asharq al - Awsat, before he founded his television channel Al Mustaquilla in 1999. Originally trailer Islamist tendencies, Hamdi quickly became allies of the regime of Ben Ali. Hashim Hamdi is alleged to have maintained close contacts with Tunisian President Ben Ali fled, but he himself denounces such accusations as slander.
In the campaign before the election to the Constituent Assembly on 23 October, the party promised free access to health care and an allowance of 200 Tunisian dinars for each of the 500,000 unemployed job seekers in Tunisia. Hechmi Hamdi has personally committed to interject 2 billion of its own prosperity in the state budget.
History
The group was founded on 17 March 2011 after the Jasmine Revolution that has the President Zine el- Abidine Ben Ali overthrown.
Several candidates of the People's Petitions have won 23 October 2011 seats in the Constituent Assembly, which makes the group with 27 of 217 seats again the third largest political force in the country. The unexpected success is also obtained that the southern Tunisian derived Hashim Hamdi is very well received in the population of the southern and central provinces, since so far only representatives from Tunis and the Mediterranean coast dominated Tunisian politics.
Their results, however, were made immediately deemed invalid due to multiple rule violations of the regulations of election campaigns: The channel Al- Mustakilla has the campaign of the People's petition massive support. Therefore, the election commission ISIE were placed several complaints against the people's petition and demanded the cancellation of the list and of their seats. On 27 October, the ISIE joined the list of people petition in six constituencies because of financial irregularities. The party leader Hashim Hamdi called his chosen candidate then to withdraw and boycott the Assembly, which, however, he withdrew on October 28th and announced that the representatives of the list will work in the parliamentary opposition. According to the complaint, the People's petition before the Administrative Court the decision of the Election Commission was abolished, and seven of the painted candidates were employed by the judgment of the court again.