Congress for the Republic
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Congress for the Republic
المؤتمر من أجل الجمهورية |
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| French name | Congrès pour la République |
| Abbreviation | El Mottamar, CPR |
| Founder | Moncef Marzouki and 31 others |
| Founded | 25 July 2001 |
| Dissolved | 2 January 2017 |
| Succeeded by | Al-Irada |
| Headquarters | 41 Hedi Chaker, 1000 Tunis |
| Newspaper | Tunisie Avenir (French) |
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Secularism Factions: Left-wing nationalism Social Democracy Democratic socialism Social liberalism Liberalism |
| Colors | Green and red |
| Slogan | Sovereignty of the people, dignity of the citizen, legitimacy of the state. Tunisian Arabic: السيادة للشعب، الكرامة للمواطن، الشرعية للدولة French: La souveraineté du peuple, la dignité du citoyen, la légitimité de l'état. |
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The Congress for the Republic (Arabic: المؤتمر من أجل الجمهورية, el-Mo’tamar min ajl el-Jomhūriya ; French: Congrès pour la République), also referred to as El Mottamar or by its French acronym CPR, is a centre-left secular political party in Tunisia. It was created in 2001, but legalised only after the 2011 Tunisian revolution. Its most prominent founder and long-term leader was Moncef Marzouki. He has been the party's honorary president since he became interim President of Tunisia in December 2011.
The creation of the CPR was declared on 25 July 2001 by 31 people including the physician, medicine professor and human rights activist Moncef Marzouki as President, Naziha Réjiba (Oum Ziad) as Secretary-general, Abderraouf Ayadi as Vice-President, Samir Ben Amor as Treasurer, and Mohamed Chakroun as Honorary President. The CPR declared that it was aimed to install a republican form of government "for the first time"in Tunisia, including freedom of speech, freedom of association, and the holding of "free, honest" elections, "guaranteed by national and international observers able to genuinely check all levels of the electoral process". The CPR's declaration also called for a new constitution, strict separation of the different branches of government, human rights guarantees, gender equality, and a constitutional court for protecting individual and collective rights. The CPR called for "renegotiating" Tunisian commitments toward the European Union, for Tunisia to support the rights of national self-determination, in particular for the Palestinian people.
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