Back التجمع الدستوري الديمقراطي Arabic Конституционно демократично обединение Bulgarian Rassemblement Constitutionel Démocratique Danish Konstitutionelle Demokratische Sammlung German Konstitucia Demokratia Kolektiĝo Esperanto Agrupación Constitucional Democrática Spanish Tunisian perustuslaillinen demokraattipuolue Finnish Rassemblement constitutionnel démocratique French Raggruppamento Costituzionale Democratico Italian 立憲民主連合 Japanese
Democratic Constitutional Rally التجمع الدستوري الديمقراطي | |
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| French name | Rassemblement constitutionnel démocratique |
| Abbreviation | RCD |
| President | Zine El Abidine Ben Ali |
| Founded | 27 February 1988 |
| Banned | 9 March 2011 |
| Preceded by | Socialist Destourian Party (formally) |
| Succeeded by | several offshoots, including Free Destourian Party |
| Headquarters | Avenue Mohammed V (Tunis) |
| Newspaper | Le Renouveau Al Hurriya |
| Student wing | ERCD |
| Youth wing | JCD |
| Membership | 2,500,000 (2010) |
| Ideology | Big tent Tunisian nationalism Bourguibism Secularism Economic liberalism[1] Authoritarianism |
| Political position | Centre-left[2][better source needed] |
| International affiliation | Socialist International (expelled in 2011) |
The Democratic Constitutional Rally or Democratic Constitutional Assembly[3] (Arabic: التجمع الدستوري الديمقراطي et-Tajammu‘ ed-Dustūrī ed-Dīmuqrāṭī, French: Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique, sometimes also called Constitutional Democratic Rally in English), also referred to by its French initials RCD, formerly called Neo Destour then Socialist Destourian Party, was the ruling party in Tunisia from independence in 1956 until it was overthrown and dissolved in the Tunisian revolution in 2011.[4][5]
- ^ "TUNISIE : La fin du congrès du RCD le président Ben Ali réaffirme son souci de " concrétiser le pluralisme"". Le Monde.fr. 3 August 1993.
- ^ "RCD (Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique) | Institut MEDEA".
- ^ Entry for "Democratic Constitutional Rally" in the Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- ^ "Minister of Interior Suspends the RCD party awaiting its dissolution". Tunis Afrique Presse (in Arabic). 7 February 2011. Archived from the original on 10 February 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
- ^ "Tunisia dissolves Ben Ali party". Al-Jazeera English. 9 March 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
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