Democratic Constitutional Rally

Democratic Constitutional Rally
التجمع الدستوري الديمقراطي
French nameRassemblement constitutionnel démocratique
AbbreviationRCD
PresidentZine El Abidine Ben Ali
Founded27 February 1988 (1988-02-27)
Banned9 March 2011 (2011-03-09)
Preceded bySocialist Destourian Party (formally)
Succeeded byseveral offshoots, including Free Destourian Party
HeadquartersAvenue Mohammed V (Tunis)
NewspaperLe Renouveau
El Hurriya
Student wingERCD
Youth wingJCD
Membership2,500,000 (2010)
IdeologyBig tent
Tunisian nationalism
Bourguibism
Secularism
Economic liberalism[1] (from 1988)
Authoritarianism
Political positionCentre-left[2][additional citation(s) needed]
International affiliationSocialist International (expelled in 2011)

The Democratic Constitutional Rally or Democratic Constitutional Assembly[3] (Arabic: التجمع الدستوري الديمقراطي et-Tajammu‘ ed-Dustūrī ed-Dīmuqrāṭī, French: Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique, sometimes also called Constitutional Democratic Rally in English), also referred to by its French initials RCD, a political party in Tunisia. If including its predecessors Neo Destour and the Socialist Destourian Party, it was the ruling party of the country from independence in 1956 until it was overthrown and dissolved in the Tunisian revolution in 2011.[4][5]

  1. ^ "TUNISIE : La fin du congrès du RCD le président Ben Ali réaffirme son souci de " concrétiser le pluralisme"". Le Monde.fr. 3 August 1993.
  2. ^ "RCD (Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique)". Institut MEDEA. Archived from the original on 21 February 2018.
  3. ^ Entry for "Democratic Constitutional Rally" in the Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  4. ^ "Minister of Interior Suspends the RCD party awaiting its dissolution". Tunis Afrique Presse (in Arabic). 7 February 2011. Archived from the original on 10 February 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
  5. ^ "Tunisia dissolves Ben Ali party". Al-Jazeera English. 9 March 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2011.