Tunisian Communist Party

Not to be confused with Tunisian Workers' Communist Party.

The Tunisian Communist Party (Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي التونسي el-Ḥizb esh-Shuyū‘i et-Tūnsi ; French: Parti Communiste Tunisien) was a Marxist political party in Tunisia. The PCT was founded on 21 May 1934 as the Tunisian federation of the French Communist Party, and it was later converted into an independent organization. The party was banned by the Vichy regime in 1939, but after the Anglo-American liberation of Tunisia in 1943, it was able to operate legally again. It was banned again in 1962 and legalized in 1981.^[1] On 23 April 1993, the PCT abandoned communism and changed its name to the Ettajdid Movement.

Tunisian Communist Party الحزب الشيوعي التونسي
French name	Parti communiste tunisien
Former Secretaries-general	Ali Jrad (1939–1948) Mohamed Nafaâ (1948–1981) Mohamed Harmel (1981–1993)
Founded	21 May 1934 (1934-05-21)
Dissolved	23 April 1993 (1993-04-23)
Succeeded by	Ettajdid Movement
Ideology	Marxism[1]
International affiliation	Comintern (1934-1943)
Politics of Tunisia Political parties Elections

Electoral history

Chamber of Deputies elections

Election	Party leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position	Government
1956	Mohamed Nafaâ	7,352	1.2%	0 / 98		2nd	Extra-parliamentary
1959		3,471	0.3%	0 / 90		2nd	Extra-parliamentary
1981	Mohamed Harmel	14,677	0.12%	0 / 136		4th	Extra-parliamentary