This article lists political parties in Tunisia. Tunisia was a dominant-party state of the Constitutional Democratic Rally ("RCD" from its French language initials) before the Tunisian revolution. In the aftermath of the revolution the RCD was dissolved by the new state authorities and over 70 new political parties formed. The country is now a multiparty state. Although there are two numerically major parties, no single party has a realistic chance of governing alone.
The following opposition parties exist de jure and/or de facto. On January 20, 2011 the cabinet of the interim government recognized all previously banned parties, with the exception of Hizb ut-Tahrir and a few other parties.
Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties (FDTL, or Ettakatol)
Ettajdid Movement, or Renewal Movement
Green Party for Progress (حزب الخضر للتقدم, Parti des verts pour le progrès)
Movement of Socialist Democrats (MDS)
Popular Unity Party (PUP)
Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), now merged into the Republican Party.
Social Liberal Party (PSL)
Unionist Democratic Union (UDU)
Liberal Democratic Social Party (Parti social démocratique liberal)
Afek Tounes. Initially merged into the Republican Party, though it was revived in August 2013.
El Amen Party
Ba'ath Movement of Tunisia (PBT) (حركة البعث تونس, Mouvement Baath de Tunisie)
Congress for the Republic (CPR)
Cultural Unionist Nation Party
Current of Love
Democratic Alliance Party
Democratic Current
Democratic Patriots' Unified Party, formerly the Democratic Patriots' Movement
Democratic Social Nation Party
Destourian Movement
Ennahda Movement or Renaissance Party
Equity and Equality Party
Free Patriotic Union
Future Tunisia Party (حركة تونس المستقبل, Mouvement Tunisie de l'Avenir)
Green Tunisia Party
Hizb ut-Tahrir or the Liberation Party
Homeland Party or Al Watan
Al Iklaa Party
Initiative
Justice and Development Party
Maghrebi Republican Party (PRM)
Movement of the Republic
New Destour Party
Nidaa Tounes
Patriotic and Democratic Labour Party (حزب العمل الوطني الديمقراطي, Parti du travail patriotique et démocratique)
Parti Democrate Liberal www.pdltunisia.com
Patriotic Construction Party
Pirate Party
Tunisian Pirate Party
Popular Front
Popular Unity Movement
Popular Unity Party
Progressive People's Party
Reform and Development Party
Reform Front Party
Republican Party
Social Democratic Path
Socialist Party, formerly the Left Socialist Party
Third Alternative
Tunisian Movement for Freedom and Dignity
Tunisian National Front
Voice of the People of Tunisia
Wafa Movement
Al-Watan Party
Workers' Party (PT), formerly the Tunisian Workers' Communist Party (PCOT)
Destour, founded 1920; split in 1934 resulted in the Neo Destour.
Neo Destour, which became the PSD in 1964.
Socialist Destourian Party (PSD), which became the RCD in 1988.
Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD). Dissolved in 2011.
Tunisian Communist Party. Became the Ettajdid Movement.
Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), merged into the Republican Party.
Ettajdid Movement. Merged into the Social Democratic Path.
