The Modernist Democratic Pole ( 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."
5-566: 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. Riadh Ben Fadl and Mustapha Ben Ahmed, are the founders of the group. 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 . Three of
10-526: The abolition of the death penalty. For Tunisia's constitution, PDM proposes a president elected to five-year terms in office and serving a maximum of two terms. In the Constituent Assembly, it proposes that laws and decisions be based on a majority vote, except for constitutional changes, which would require a two-thirds majority vote. Four parties: Five independent initiatives: Ahmed Ibrahim (Tunisian politician) Ahmed Brahim ( Arabic : أحمد إبراهيم , ʾAḥmad Ibrāhīm ; 14 June 1946 – 14 April 2016)
15-838: 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. According to Islamopedia, the bloc officially released its campaign platform on 24 September 2011. The bloc proposes the separation of religion and politics and in contrast to traditional Islamic Sharia law emphasises gender equality, with half its election lists headed by female candidates, and its platform promoting ‘perfect equality’ in inheritance law. The party also supports
20-468: Was comparative linguistics . After the fall of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali , he was appointed by the new government as the Minister of Higher Education and left the post on 7 March. Brahim is in favor of the emergence of a "democratic modern and secular [laicist] state" not connected with Islamists. According to Brahim, this would require "radical" reform of the electoral system, which would improve
25-646: Was a Tunisian politician. He was the First Secretary of Ettajdid Movement and the leader of the Democratic Modernist Pole until April 2012, when his party merged into the Social Democratic Path of which he became the president. He was the Ettajdid Movement's candidate for President of Tunisia in the 2009 presidential election . A linguist by profession, he was a professor of French at Tunis University ; his area of study
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