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The Movement of Social Democrats (Arabic: حركة الديمقراطيين الاشتراكيين, Ḥarakat ad-Dīmuqrāṭiyyīn al-Ishtirākiyyīn ; French: Mouvement des démocrates socialistes) is an opposition political party in Tunisia. It was the second-largest party in the Chamber of Deputies, behind the dominant Constitutional Democratic Rally, with sixteen seats.
In 1999, it became the largest opposition party, with 13 seats in the Tunisian parliament. In 2001, the then-party leader Mohamed al Mouadda was charged with having formed a pact with the banned Islamist group Ennahda. At the 2004 parliamentary election, the party won 4.6% of the popular vote and 14 seats. Their number of seats rose to 16 at the 2009 election.
The party obtained two seats in the 2011 election.
Political parties in Tunisia 
Major parties in the
Constituent Assembly- Ennahda Movement (89)
- Congress for the Republic (29)
- Popular Petition for Freedom, Justice and Development (26)
- Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties (20)
- Progressive Democratic Party (16)
Minor parties in the
Constituent Assembly- Democratic Modernist Pole (incl. Ettajdid Movement; 5)
- The Initiative (5)
- Afek Tounes (4)
- Tunisian Workers' Communist Party (3)
- Movement of Socialist Democrats (2)
- People's Movement (2)
- Cultural Unionist Nation Party (1)
- Democratic Patriots' Movement (1)
- Democratic Social Nation Party (1)
- Equity and Equality Party (1)
- Free Patriotic Union (1)
- Maghrebin Liberal Party (1)
- New Destour Party (1)
- Progressive Struggle Party (1)
- Independents (8)
Unrepresented Banned or unlicensed - Hizb ut-Tahrir
- Tunisian Pirate Party
Defunct - Destour (1920-60)
- Neo Destour (1934-64)
- Tunisian Communist Party (1934-93)
- Socialist Destourian Party (1964-88)
- Constitutional Democratic Rally (1988-2011)
Categories:- Political parties in Tunisia
- Socialist parties
- North Africa political party stubs
- Tunisia stubs
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