Neo Destour

New Constitutional Liberal Party
حزب الحر الدستوري الجديد
French nameNouveau Parti libéral constitutionnel
Former presidentsMahmoud El Materi (1934–1938)
Habib Bourguiba (1938–1964)
Founded2 March 1934 (1934-03-02)
Ksar Hellal Congress
Dissolved22 October 1964 (1964-10-22)
Split fromDestour
Succeeded bySocialist Destourian Party
NewspaperL'Action Tunisienne
IdeologyTunisian nationalism
Bourguibism
Secularism
Arab nationalism[1]
Pan-Arabism[2]

The New Constitutional Liberal Party (Arabic: الحزب الحر الدستوري الجديد, el-Ḥizb el-Ḥurr ed-Dustūrī el-Jadīd; French: Nouveau Parti libéral constitutionnel), most commonly known as Neo Destour, was a Tunisian political party founded in 1934 in Dar Ayed, the house of independence activist Ahmed Ayed,[3] by a group of Tunisian nationalist politicians during the French protectorate. It originated from a split with the Destour party.

Led by Habib Bourguiba, Neo Destour became the ruling party upon Tunisian independence in 1956. In 1964, it was renamed the Socialist Destourian Party.

  1. ^ Bulutgil, H. Zeynep (2022). The Origins of Secular Institutions: Ideas, Timing, and Organization. Oxford University Press. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-19-759844-3.
  2. ^ Jebnoun, Noureddine; Kia, Mehrdad; Kirk, Mimi (2013-07-31). Modern Middle East Authoritarianism: Roots, Ramifications, and Crisis. Routledge. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-135-00731-7.
  3. ^ Dar Ayed Museum in Ksar Hellal will soon be renovated: https://directinfo.webmanagercenter.com/2016/06/25/monastir-musee-dar-ayed-a-ksar-hellal-connaitra-bientot-des-travaux-de-renovation/