{{Short description|Tunisian political party}} {{for|the breakaway faction of Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party|Party of the Democratic Revolution}} {{Infobox political party | name = Democratic Current | native_name = التيار الديمقراطي | logo = 200px | founder = Mohamed Abbou | leader1_title = General Secretary | leader1_name = Nabil Hajij | leader2_title = Spokesperson | leader2_name = | foundation = {{Start date and age|2013|5|30|df=y}} | slogan = "Conscience, will, realization<ref name="2013-06-12" />" | headquarters = Rue de Marseille Tunis | youth_wing = Democratic Students Current | membership = | membership_year = | ideology = Social democracy<br />Arab nationalism<br />Progressivism<br />Pan-Arabism<ref name="2013-06-12">{{cite web | url=http://www.businessnews.com.tn/Tunisie---Le-Courant-D%C3%A9mocrate-de-Mohamed-Abbou,-le-parti-qui-vise-un-Etat-f%C3%A9d%C3%A9ral-arabe,520,38675,3 | title=Tunisie - Le Courant Démocrate de Mohamed Abbou, le parti qui vise un Etat fédéral arabe | publisher=Business News | date=12 June 2013 | language=fr | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141026172646/http://www.businessnews.com.tn/Tunisie---Le-Courant-D%C3%A9mocrate-de-Mohamed-Abbou%2C-le-parti-qui-vise-un-Etat-f%C3%A9d%C3%A9ral-arabe%2C520%2C38675%2C3 | archivedate=26 October 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref> | position = {{Nowrap|Centre-left}} | international = | seats2_title = Assembly of the Representatives of the People | seats2 = {{Composition bar|0|161|hex={{party color|Democratic Current}}}} | colours = {{Color box|{{party color|Democratic Current}}|border=darkgray}} Orange | native_name_lang = ar | colorcode = {{party color|Democratic Current}} | website = {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060524190451/http://www.attayar.net/ www.attayar.net]}} | country = Tunisia }} thumb|right|Foundation ceremony on 12 June 2013 The '''Democratic Current''' ({{langx|ar|التيّار الديمُقراطي|at-Tayyār ad-Dīmuqrāṭī}}) is a social-democratic political party in Tunisia that was founded in 2013.
The party was initiated by the former secretary-general of the Congress for the Republic, Mohamed Abbou<ref name="2014-10-30">{{cite web | title=Nidaa Tunis is not the only winner | url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2014/10/tunisia-winners-elections-parliamentary.html | publisher=Al Monitor | date=30 October 2014 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112231227/http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2014/10/tunisia-winners-elections-parliamentary.html | archivedate=12 November 2014}}</ref> who also served as deputy prime minister in the Jebali Cabinet until June 2012. It is committed to the project of realizing an "Arab federal state reuniting the Arab nations freed from the yoke of dictatorship".<ref name="2013-06-12" />
After the 2019 Tunisian parliamentary election, the party agreed to form a parliamentary bloc with the People's Movement.<ref>{{cite news |last1=at-Tarhuni |first1=Salwa |title=كتلة برلمانية موحدة تضم نواب حركة الشعب والتيار الديمقراطي |url=http://www.tunisien.tn/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3/%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%B6%D9%85-%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B9 |accessdate=5 December 2019 |work=tunisien.tn |date=27 November 2019}}</ref>
== Election results == === Parliamentary elections === {|class="wikitable" |- ! rowspan=2|Election ! rowspan=2|Leader ! colspan=2|Party list ! colspan=3|Seats |- ! # ! % ! # ! ± ! Position |- |2014 |Mohamed Abbou |66,396 |1.95 |{{Composition bar|3|217|hex={{party color|Democratic Current}}}} |{{increase}} 3 |{{steady}} 7th |- |2019 |Mohamed Abbou |183,464 |6.42 |{{Composition bar|22|217|hex={{party color|Democratic Current}}}} |{{increase}} 19 |{{increase}} 4th |}
=== Municipal elections === {|class="wikitable" |- ! rowspan=2|Election ! rowspan=2|Leader ! colspan=2|Party list ! colspan=3|Seats |- ! # ! % ! # ! ± ! Position |- |2018 |Ghazi Chaouachi |75 619 |4,19 |{{Composition bar|205|7212|hex={{party color|Democratic Current}}}} |{{increase}} 205 |{{steady}} 3rd |}
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==External links== *{{official website}} {{in lang|ar}} {{Tunisian political parties}}
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