Destour
- proper noun
- Ultimately, the Old Destour failed to mobilize popular support from rural areas in their struggle against the colonial regime.
- Neo-Destour
- Socialist Destour
- Destour Party
Examples
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Within a year, Bourguiba and his supporters broke with the Destour leadership.
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The party name was changed to the Socialist Destour Party.
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The Socialist Destour appeared to recognize the growing importance of urban areas for their own stability and economic growth.
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Unlike political parties in most of the late developing world, the core of Neo-Destour leadership came from the countryside.
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Until the 1980s, the variants of the Destour party largely viewed democracy as something that functioned within a single-party framework.
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The National Front, an alliance of the Neo-Destour and the UGTT, swept the Assembly seats; not a single opposition candidate was elected.
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In the Tunisian version of modernization theory, the Neo-Destour became Tunisia's key instrument of modernization.
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The Destour played a crucial role in Tunisia's fight for independence from French colonial rule.
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Many prominent leaders of the Tunisian independence movement were members of the Destour party.
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After gaining independence, the Destour was pivotal in shaping the new political landscape of Tunisia.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The Tunisian party called Destour took its name from the same word for 'constitution' or 'order'. That's why the name showed the party wanted a new set of laws and national rule.
