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{{Infobox Tunisian political party
| name               = Ettajdid Movement
| arabic_name        = حركة التجديد
| french_name        = Mouvement Ettajdid
| logo               = [[File:Movment Ettijad logo.png|200px]]
| abbreviation       = 
| first_secretary    = 
| founder            = 
| former_leaders_title = first secretary
| former_leaders     = [[Ahmed Brahim (Tunisian politician)|Ahmed Brahim]]
| slogan             = 
| founded            = {{Start date|1993|4|23|df=yes}}
| legalized          = <!-- only for parties whose legalization date is a separately significant date -->
| dissolved          = {{End date|2012|4|1|df=yes}}
| predecessor        = [[Tunisian Communist Party]]
| merged             = [[Social Democratic Path]]
| headquarters       = {{nowrap|6 rue de Métouia}} <br> [[Tunis]]
| newspaper          = ''Attariq al Jadid''
| student_wing       = 
| youth_wing         = 
| membership_year    = 
| membership         = 
| ideology           = [[Secularism]]<ref>{{Citation|first=Monica |last=Marks |title=Can Islamism and Feminism Mix?|newspaper=The New York Times|date=26 October 2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/opinion/can-islamism-and-feminism-mix.html|access-date=28 October 2011}}</ref><br>[[Democratic socialism]]<ref name="Atlantic">{{Citation|first=Max|last=Fisher|title=Tunisian Election Results Guide: The Fate of a Revolution|newspaper=The Atlantic|date=27 October 2011 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/tunisian-election-results-guide-the-fate-of-a-revolution/247384/|access-date=28 October 2011}}</ref><br>[[Social liberalism]]<ref name="Atlantic"/>
|position            = [[Centre-left]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Tunisia president not to run again|first=Yasmine|last=Ryan |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/01/2011113192110570350.html|newspaper=Al Jazeera|date=14 January 2011|access-date=4 February 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Tunisia: who are the opposition leaders?|first=Najib|last=Chebbi |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/tunisia/8265285/Tunisia-who-are-the-opposition-leaders.html|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=18 January 2011|access-date=4 February 2011|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Tunisia seeks to form unity cabinet after Ben Ali fall |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12201042|work=[[BBC News]] |date=16 January 2011|access-date=4 February 2011}}</ref>
| national           = [[Democratic Modernist Pole]]
| international      = 
| colors             = 
| seats              = <!-- number only -->
| light_text         = <!-- yes/no. "no" by default -->
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| website            = {{URL|http://ettajdid.org}}
| footnotes          = 
}}

The '''Ettajdid Movement''' (''Movement for Renewal'' ; {{langx|ar|حركة التجديد}}, ''{{Transliteration|ar|Ḥarakat et-Tajdīd}}'' ; {{langx|fr|Mouvement Ettajdid}}), also referred to simply as '''Ettajdid''', was a [[centre-left]] [[secularism|secularist]] [[political party]] in [[Tunisia]], active from 1993 to 2012.

==History and profile==
Ettajdid evolved out of the old [[Tunisian Communist Party]], when it abandoned its former ideology in 1993. During the [[Zine El Abidine Ben Ali|Ben Ali]] rule, it was one of the legal, although oppressed opposition parties. After the [[Tunisian revolution]] of 2011, it became part of the [[Democratic Modernist Pole]] alliance and in 2012 it merged into the [[Social Democratic Path]]. It was led by its First Secretary [[Mohamed Harmel]] from its creation until 2007 and then by [[Ahmed Brahim (Tunisian politician)|Ahmed Brahim]] until its dissolution.

Adopting its new name and abandoning [[communism]] in April 1993, the party adopted a [[social]] economic programme, and it was legalised in November 1993. In the [[Tunisian general election, 1994|1994 election]], the party won four seats. This increased to five [[Tunisian general election, 1999|in 1999]], before falling to three in the [[Tunisian general election, 2004|2004 election]] and to two [[Tunisian general election, 2009|in 2009]], making it the smallest of the seven parties represented in the [[Parliament of Tunisia|Tunisian parliament]].

After [[2010–2011 Tunisian uprising|massive protests in January 2011]], Ettajdid gained a post for Ahmed Brahim as Minister of Higher Education.<ref name="urlBBC News - Tunisia forms national unity government amid unrest">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12209621|title=Tunisia forms national unity government amid unrest|work=BBC|access-date=18 January 2011|date=17 January 2011}}</ref> For the [[Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, 2011|Constituent assembly election]], Ettajdid formed a strongly secularist alliance called [[Democratic Modernist Pole]] (PDM), of which it was the mainstay.<ref>{{Citation |first=Angelique|last=Chrisafis|title=Tunisian elections: the key parties|newspaper=The Guardian|date=19 October 2011 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/19/tunisia-elections-the-key-parties |access-date=24 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |first=Sam |last=Bollier |title=Who are Tunisia's political parties?|work=Al Jazeera|date=9 Oct 2011|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/10/201110614579390256.html |access-date=21 October 2011}}</ref>

On 1 April 2012, it merged with the [[Tunisian Labour Party]] and some individual members of the Democratic Modernist Pole to form the [[Social Democratic Path]].<ref>{{Citation |first=Asma |last=Ghribi |url=http://www.tunisia-live.net/2012/04/02/fusion-of-centrist-parties-to-create-a-new-force-in-tunisian-politics/ |title=Fusion of Centrist Parties to Create a New Force in Tunisian Politics |publisher=Tunisia-live |date=2 April 2012 |access-date=6 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102192652/http://www.tunisia-live.net/2012/04/02/fusion-of-centrist-parties-to-create-a-new-force-in-tunisian-politics/ |archive-date=2 January 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Ettajdid published ''Attariq al Jadid'' (New Path).<ref>{{cite web|title=Tunisia's Media Landscape|url=http://www.mediasupport.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ims-tunisia-assessment-2002.pdf|work=International Media Support|access-date=11 October 2014|format=Report|date=June 2002}}</ref>

== Electoral history ==

=== Presidential elections ===
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center
!Election date
!Party candidate
!'''Votes'''
!'''%'''
!Result
|-
|[[Tunisian general election, 2004|2004]]
|Mohamed Ali Halouani
|42,213
|0.95%
|'''Lost''' {{Nay}}
|-
|[[Tunisian general election, 2009|2009]]
|[[Ahmed Brahim (politician)|Ahmed Brahim]]
|74,257
|1.57%
|'''Lost''' {{Nay}}
|}

=== Chamber of Deputies elections ===
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center
!'''Election'''
!Party leader
!'''Votes'''
!'''%'''
!'''Seats'''
!+/–
|-
|[[Tunisian general election, 1994|1994]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Mohamed Harmel]]
|11,299
|0.4%
|{{Composition bar|4|163|hex=blue}}
|{{increase}} 4
|-
|[[Tunisian general election, 1999|1999]]
|
|
|{{Composition bar|5|182|hex=blue}}
|{{increase}} 1
|-
|[[Tunisian general election, 2004|2004]]
|43,268
|1.74%
|{{Composition bar|3|182|hex=blue}}
|{{decrease}} 2
|-
|[[Tunisian general election, 2004|2009]]
|[[Ahmed Brahim (Tunisian politician)|Ahmed Brahim]]
|22,206
|0.50%
|{{Composition bar|2|214|hex=blue}}
|{{decrease}} 1
|}

== Footnotes ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://ettajdid.org/ Official website]
{{Tunisian political parties}}

[[Category:1993 establishments in Tunisia]]
[[Category:2012 disestablishments in Tunisia]]
[[Category:Defunct political parties in Tunisia]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 1993]]
[[Category:Political parties disestablished in 2012]]
[[Category:Secularism in Tunisia]]
[[Category:Socialist parties in Tunisia]]