Congress for the Republic

The Congress for the Republic (Arabic: المؤتمر من أجل الجمهورية, romanized: Al-Mu’tamar min ajl al-Jumhūriyya; 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.

The creation of the CPR was declared on 25 July 2001[10] 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.

[10] 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.

Subsequently, the party contracted a three-party coalition with the winning Islamist Ennahda Movement and Ettakatol, called the "Troika".

The splinter party that was later renamed Wafa Movement, is headed by Abderraouf Ayadi, a former secretary general of the CPR.

Glasses with a thick red and green frame
The CPR's electoral symbol.