2012-07-11
Xinhua
Tunisia's Communist Workers' Party has changed its name to The Tunisian Workers' Party, the party's leader Hamma Hammami announced during a press conference held on Tuesday.

Hammami said the party's national bureau made the decision in a bid to move closer to the poorer that the party purports to defend.

"The aim is to rally a large group of the population around a clear program and not simply around the issue of faith," he said.

Hammami also said that talks had effectively started with nine other parties with a view to set up a large popular front "to prevent retrograde forces from definitively confiscating the revolution."

According to the party chief, the country is witnessing a period of confusion and a deadlock over the much awaited reforms in the sectors of security, justice, free press and administration.

"The coalition in power is incapable of achieving the objectives of the revolution," he said.

The party, which has three representatives in the country's 217- member constitutional assembly, is mostly active in universities. During the rule of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the party was illegal and its leader and members were forced into hiding.