Democratic Modernist Pole

The Modernist Democratic Pole[1][2][3] (Arabic: القطب الديمقراطي الحداثي) (French: Pôle démocratique moderniste) (PDM) was a Tunisian political coalition created for the Tunisian Constituent Assembly election of 23 October 2011. The "Pole" consisted of four parties and five citizen initiatives, the largest of which is the Ettajdid Movement. However, an 18 October report by Bloomberg.com states that "attempts by ... the Modernist Democratic Pole, to create a pre-election multiparty coalition failed."[4]

The bloc was founded in May 2011. On 7 September it announced candidate lists for the Constituent Assembly election in all the 33 constituencies at home and abroad. Sixteen women and 17 men will be chief candidates.[5] Riadh Ben Fadl and Mustapha Ben Ahmed, are the founders of the group.[6] Ahmed Ibrahim is a leader in the bloc. The bloc won 5 of the 217 seats and 4.91% of the vote in the 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election.[7] Three of the parties in the coalition: the Republican Party, the Socialist Left Party and the Social Democratic Path) became part of another coalition called the Union for Tunisia in 2013.[8]

  1. ^ Chrisafis, Angelique (2011-10-24). "Tunisia elections: An-Nahda party on course to win". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  2. ^ Schäfer, Isabel (19 August 2015). "The Tunisian Transition: Torn Between Democratic Consolidation and Neo-Conservatism in an Insecure Regional Context" (PDF). PapersIEMed (25). European Institute of the Mediterranean. Joint series with EuroMeSCo: 18. ISSN 1888-5357 – via German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn.
  3. ^ R (2023-01-12). "Tunisia-January 14: These 5 parties will go down the street this Saturday to protest". Tunisie Numérique, Tunisia News. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  4. ^ Islamists Lead Polls Before First Democratic Tunisia Election By Gregory Viscusi and Jihen Laghmari - bloomberg.com Oct 18, 2011
  5. ^ Modernist Democratic Pole fields candidacies in all constituencies Archived 2012-04-25 at the Wayback Machine. Tunisian News Agency. 8 September 2011
  6. ^ The Modernist Democratic Pole: A “New” political coalition Archived 2012-03-10 at the Wayback Machine Zied Mhirsi | 03 June 2011
  7. ^ In a Worried Corner of Tunis Joshua Hammer NYRoB October 27, 2011. (text not available for free on internet)
  8. ^ Union for Tunisia: Jebali's initiative "step forward on right path", TAP, 12 February 2013, archived from the original on 17 February 2013, retrieved 21 July 2013