Destour

Constitutional Liberal Party الحزب الحر الدستوري
President	Abdelaziz Thâalbi (1921–1944)
Founded	June 4, 1920 (1920-06-04)
Dissolved	Early 1960s
Preceded by	Young Tunisians
Succeeded by	Neo Destour
Ideology	Arab nationalism Panarabism
Politics of Tunisia Political parties Elections

The Constitutional Liberal Party (Arabic: الحزب الحر الدستوري‎, al-Ḥizb al-Ḥurr ad-Dustūrī), most commonly known as Destour, was a Tunisian political party, founded in 1920, which had as its the goal to liberate Tunisia from French colonial control.

The term Destour is usually translated as constitutional. It is probably of Persian origin through the presence of Turkish in Northern Africa during the Middle Ages until the 19th century.^{[citation needed]} There is no trace of this word in the Arabic spoken during the pre-Islamic period, nor in the Quran or hadiths, nor in the Arabic language literature during the period preceding the Ottoman Empire, during which this word began to be used in Egypt.^{[citation needed]}

Founding members

• Ahmed Taoufik El Madani
• Ahmed Essafi
• Salah Farhat
• Ali Kahia
• Mohieddine Klibi
• Hamouda Mestiri
• Ahmed Sakka
• Abdelaziz Thâalbi
• Habib Zouiten

See also

• Neo Destour
• Parti Socialiste Destourian (PSD)
• Rassemblement Constitutionel Démocratique (RCD)

External links

• (French) History of the beginning of the Destour