Green_Party_for_Progress

Green Party for Progress

Green Party for Progress

Political party in Tunisia

Not to be confused with Green Tunisia Party.

Green Party for Progress (Arabic: حزب الخضر للتقدم, French: Parti des verts pour le progrès), often abbreviated to PVP, is a Tunisian green political party.

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Founded in November 2005 by Mongi Khamassi,[1] a former member of PSL,[1] they were legalised four months later as one of the nine political parties that were legalised before the Tunisian revolution.[1] The first party conference was held in December 2008.[1]

Internationally the party has been denounced as not a true green party, particularly by the French[2] and European Green parties.[3]

In the 2009 presidential election, they supported the winning candidate Ben Ali.[4] In the general election, their first contested, which was held simultaneously, they won six seats with 74,185 votes and a 1.67% vote share.[5] They won a single councillor seat in the 2018 municipal elections with 150 votes.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Néjib Sassi (20 December 2008), Société civile : premier congrès du Parti des verts pour le progrès (PVP) (in French), L'Expression
  2. [2]
    Communiqué à la presse du 8 mars 2006 (in French), Les Verts, 8 March 2006
  3. [3]
    The European Green Party acknowledges the Tunisian Green Party, European Green Party
  4. [4]
    Tunisie : le parti des verts de Mongi Khamassi sort ses griffes (in French), Espace Manager, 25 January 2011
  5. [5]
    A parliamentary majority for the Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) with 89.59%[permanent dead link], Tunisia Online News, October 26, 2009.
  6. [6]
    Nadia Dejoui (9 May 2018), Résultats des élections municipales 2018 (in French), leconomistemaghrebin.com.


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