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unusual facts about Neo Destour


Hédi Saidi

From 1934, Saïdi was the leader of the propaganda of Neo Destour and one of the pillars of the underground action of the party: it formed the "group of conflict", aimed by him and Béchir Zarg Layoun, within whom activists broke telephone and telegraph lines and distributed pamphlets calling to conflict.


Fouad Mebazaa

Born during the French occupation of Tunisia, Mebazaa became a member of the "constitutional youth" in 1947 and was elected a member of the AixMarseille unit of the Neo Destour political party, which played a major role in gaining independence from France.

President of Tunisia

Because of this, presidencial elections in Tunisia, such as that of 2009, have lacked international credibility, with elections dominated by the ruling party, the Constitutional Democratic Rally and its previous incarnations as the Neo Destour party and the Socialist Destourian Party.


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