Tunisian Communist Party

{{Distinguish|Tunisian Workers' Communist Party}} {{Infobox Tunisian political party | name = Tunisian Communist Party | arabic_name = الحزب الشيوعي التونسي | french_name = Parti communiste tunisien | former_leaders_title = Secretaries-general | former_leaders = Ali Jrad (1939–1948) Mohamed Nafaâ (1948–1981)<br />Mohamed Harmel (1981–1993) | slogan = | founded = {{Start date|1934|5|21|df=yes}} | legalized =  | dissolved = {{End date|1993|4|23|df=yes}} | separated = French Communist Party | successor = Ettajdid Movement | headquarters = | newspaper = | student_wing = | youth_wing = | membership_year = | membership = | ideology = Marxism<ref name="GilbergTrond">{{cite book|last1=Gilberg|first1=Trond|title=Coalition Strategies of Marxist Parties|date=1989|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=0822308495|pages=239–263|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ryleTJzX88C&pg=PA239|accessdate=1 February 2018}}</ref> | national = | international = Comintern (1934-1943) | colors = | symbol = | footnotes = }}

The '''Tunisian Communist Party''' ({{langx|ar|الحزب الشيوعي التونسي}} ''{{transliteration|ar|el-Ḥizb esh-Shuyū‘i et-Tūnsi}}'' ; {{langx|fr|Parti Communiste Tunisien}}) was a Marxist political party in Tunisia. The PCT was founded on 21 May 1934 as the Tunisian federation of the French Communist Party, and it was later converted into an independent organization. The party was banned by the Vichy regime in 1939, but after the Anglo-American liberation of Tunisia in 1943, it was able to operate legally again. It was banned again in 1962 and legalized in 1981.<ref name="GilbergTrond"/> On 23 April 1993, the PCT abandoned communism and changed its name to the Ettajdid Movement.

== Electoral history ==

=== Chamber of Deputies elections === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" !'''Election''' !Party leader !'''Votes''' !'''%''' !'''Seats''' !+/– !'''Position''' !'''Government''' |- |1956 | rowspan="2" |Mohamed Nafaâ |7,352 |1.2% |{{Composition bar|0|98|hex=red}} |{{steady}} |{{increase}} 2nd | style="background-color:#FFCCCC" |Extra-parliamentary |- |1959 |3,471 |0.3% |{{Composition bar|0|90|hex=red}} |{{steady}} |{{steady}} 2nd | style="background-color:#FFCCCC" |Extra-parliamentary |- |1981 |Mohamed Harmel |14,677 |0.12% |{{Composition bar|0|136|hex=red}} |{{steady}} |{{decrease}} 4th | style="background-color:#FFCCCC" |Extra-parliamentary |}

==References== {{Reflist}} {{Tunisian political parties}} {{Authority control}}

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