Free Destourian Party

The Free Destourian Party (Arabic: الحزب الدستوري الحر al-Ḥizb ad-Dustūrī al-Ḥurr, lit. 'Free Constitutional Party'; French: Parti destourien libre, PDL), known as the Destourian Movement (Arabic: الحركة الدستورية al-Ḥaraka ad-Dustūrīya) until August 2016, is a Tunisian political party founded by former members of Tunisia's pre-revolution ruling party, the Constitutional Democratic Rally. In the 2014 presidential election, the Destourian Movement nominated Abderrahim Zouari, Minister of Transport from 2004 to 2011, as a candidate. The party is now led by the lawyer and MP Abir Moussi. Since the beginning of 2020, the party has led in all opinion polls for the next Tunisian general elections, and its leader, Abir Moussi, is consistently placed second after the incumbent president Kais Saied. On October 3rd, 2023, the president of the PDL, Abir Moussi, was arrested in a series of political arrests and a crackdown on the opposition launched by president Kais Saied.