Moncef Marzouki accused the party of having ties to the now banned Constitutional Democratic Rally. The party took offense to his statements and considered his accusation to be "inappropriate" and, according to Al Maghreb, sued him for "deficiency of professional ethics."[2]
Afek Tounes won four seats for the constitutive assembly. The party was rattled on 3 November 2011 though by the resignation of several key founding members such as its spokesperson Emna Mnif, its general secretary Mustapha Mezghani, Sami Zaoui, Hela Hababou and another 13 members.
After underperforming in the 2011 Constituent Assembly election, Afek Tounes joined talks with other secularist and liberal parties, especially the Progressive Democratic Party to form a "big party of the centre". The merger was completed on 9 April 2012. The new party is called the Republican Party.[8]
In August 2013, Yassine Brahim and other former party members left the Republican Party to revive Afek Tounes.[9]
On 19 December 2020, Fadhel Abdelkefi was elected president by the national council for a four year term.[10]
Abdelkefi resigned from the presidency of Afek Tounes on 19 October 2023.
On 10 December 2023, Rym Mahjoub was elected as president of the party running for the presidency against the party’s executive director Abderrahmane Belgacem. Mahjoub received 59.41% of the votes while Abderrahmane Belgacem obtained 37.17%.
^Jeffrey A. Coupe; Hamadi Redissi (2014). Ellen Lust (ed.). Tunisia (13th ed.). CQ Press. p. 810. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^Steven A. Cook (2017). False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East. Oxford University Press. p. 133.
^Nouri Gana (2013). The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects. Edinburgh University Press. p. ix.
^Abdelwahab ben Hafaiedh; I. William Zartman (2015). Tunisia – Beyond the Ideological Cleavage: Something Else. University of Georgia Press. p. 58. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
