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– political party in Tunisia

The New Constitutional Liberal Party (Arabic: الحزب الحر الدستوري الجديد, el-Ḥizb el-Ḥurr ed-Dustūrī el-Jadīd; French: Nouveau Parti libéral constitutionnel), most commonly known as Neo Destour, was a Tunisianpolitical party founded in in Dar Ayed, the house of independence activist Ahmed Ayed,^[3] by a group of Tunisian nationalist politicians during the French protectorate.

It originated from a split with the Destour party.

Led by Habib Bourguiba, Neo Destour became the ruling party upon Tunisian independence in In , it was renamed the Socialist Destourian Party.

History

The party was formed as a result of a split from the pre-existing Destour party in , during the Ksar Hellal Congress of March 2.^[4][5][6] Several leaders were particularly prominent during the party's early years before World War II: Habib Bourguiba, Mahmoud El Materi, Tahar Sfar, Bahri Guiga, and Salah ben Youssef