By Maryline Dumas
Published 2 hours ago, updated 1 hour ago
The leader of the Islamist Ennahda party, Rached Ghannouchi, is accompanied by his supporters to the Tunis police station on February 21, 2023, where he was summoned by an investigating judge. He will be sentenced to prison in April. FETHI BELAID/AFP
INVESTIGATION – Tunisia's first political formation, which structured and led the ten years of “democratic transition” after the 2011 revolution, is in its worst shape.
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Do Ennahda and political Islam still have a future in Tunisia? This question deserves to be asked as the Islamist party has weakened under the regime of Kaïs Saïed, who carried out a coup in July 2021 by freezing the parliament presided over by Rached Ghannouchi, the historic leader of the Dove Formation.
At the end of 2023, an annus horribilis for Ennahda, around twenty party officials will be in prison. Former MPs, ministers and even prime ministers are accused in more or less substantiated cases, ranging from corruption to conspiracy against the state. Ennahda offices were closed by Interior Ministry decree in April following the arrest of Rached Ghannouchi. The hundred employees have not been paid since then. Working meetings are held remotely for practical reasons – some executives went into exile, as was the case under Ben Ali (1987-2011) – and for security reasons. “We thank Covid and new technologies. It is easier…
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