Democratic Patriots' Unified Party

The Democratic Patriots' Unified Party (Arabic: حزب الوطنيين الديمقراطيين الموحد), formerly the Democratic Patriots' Movement, is a communist party in Tunisia.^[2] Established in 1981, the movement was only legalised in 2011 after the Tunisian Revolution. The movement primarily advocates a parliamentary system, the balanced development of the peasantry and light industry, and campaigns against the exploitation of the working classes of Tunisia. In the 2011 elections, they won one seat in the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia, Mongi Rahoui from Jendouba Constituency.^[3] In October 2012, the party formed a leftist coalition, the Popular Front, with the Workers' Party, the Tunisian Green Party, the Movement of Socialist Democrats, the Tunisian Ba'ath Movement (an Iraqi-led branch of the Ba'ath Party), and other Progressive parties. The Movement is strongly anti-Islamist.

Democratic Patriots' Unified Party حزب الوطنيين الديمقراطيين الموحد
French name	Parti unifié des patriotes démocrates
Secretary-General	Ziad Lakhdhar
Founded	1982 (1982)
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism Maoism[1] Arab nationalism Anti-Islamism
National affiliation	Popular Front
Colors	Red, white
Assembly of the Representatives of the People	2 / 217
Website
www.wataduni.org
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Its secretary-general, Chokri Belaid, was shot dead on 6 February 2013.^[4]