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{{Infobox Tunisian political party
| name               = Popular Unity Party
| arabic_name        = حزب الوحدة الشعبية
| french_name        = Parti de l'Unité Populaire
| logo               = [[File:Popular Unity Party (Tunisia).jpg|200px]]
| abbreviation       = PUP
| president          = Houssine El Hammemi
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| founded            = {{Start date|1981|01}}
| legalized          = 19 November 1983
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| split              = [[Popular Unity Movement]] 
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| headquarters       = 37 Rue Palestine 1002, [[Tunis]]
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| ideology           = [[Socialism]]<br>[[Arab nationalism]]
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| seats              = 0
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The '''Popular Unity Party''' ({{langx|ar|حزب الوحدة الشعبية}}; {{langx|fr|link=no|Parti de l'Unité Populaire}}, '''PUP''') is an [[Arab nationalism|Arab nationalist]] party in [[Tunisia]].<ref name="Tunisia parties">{{Citation|author=Angelique Chrisafis|title=Tunisia's political parties|newspaper=The Guardian|date=19 October 2011 |url=http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2011/10/19/Tunisian_Parties_2010.pdf |accessdate=17 June 2013}}</ref>

==History and profile==
The party was founded in 1981 as a breakaway from the left-wing [[Popular Unity Movement]] (MUP) by members who disagreed with MUP leader Ahmed Ben Salah's policy to boycott elections.<ref>{{Citation|author=Christopher Alexander|title=Tunisia: Stability and Reform in the Modern Maghreb|publisher=Routledge|year=2010 |page=126}}</ref> In 1983, the government of [[Mohammed Mzali]] legalised two moderate oppositional parties, including the PUP.<ref>{{Citation|author=Kenneth J. Perkins|title=A History of Modern Tunisia|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2004|page=168}}</ref>

The party won two seats in the [[Tunisian general election, 1994|general election]] held on 20 March 1994.<ref>{{cite news|title=Elections Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uGAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT11|accessdate=11 October 2014|date=April 1994|work=IFES|page=11|issn=1073-6719}}</ref>

Following the elections of 1999, the PUP had seven members in the Tunisian parliament. At the [[Tunisian general election, 2004|2004 legislative elections]], the party won 3.6% of the popular vote and 11 out of 189 seats. The same day, its candidate {{ill|Mohamed Bouchiha|fr}}, won 3.8% at the presidential elections. In 2006, the PUP tried to form an alliance with three other minor oppositional parties, the [[Social Liberal Party (Tunisia)|Social Liberal Party]] (PSL), the [[Unionist Democratic Union]] (UDU) and the [[Green Party for Progress]] (PVP). However, the alliance quickly collapsed when some of the participants were accused of pursuing particular interests rather than unity of the opposition.<ref>{{Citation|author=Alexander|title=Tunisia |year=2010|page=63}}</ref> At the [[Tunisian general election, 2009|2009 legislative elections]], the PUP won 3.4% of the popular vote and 12 out of 214 seats.

After the [[Tunisian revolution]] of 2011, the PUP participated in [[Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, 2011|elections for the Constituent Assembly]], but failed to win any seats.

The party has published a weekly newspaper under the title of ''Al Wahada''.<ref>{{Citation|author=Kuldip R. Rampal|title=North Africa|work=International Afro Mass Media: A Reference Guide|publisher=Greenwood|year=1996|page=128}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060720170934/http://www.elwahda.org.tn/ Official website]

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[[Category:Socialist parties in Tunisia]]


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