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Tunisia's Ennahda party reelects chief
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 25 - 05 - 2016

The president of Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda party was reelected Monday, as the group meets for a key congress to discuss separating religious and political activities.
Rached Ghannouchi, who won the ballot comfortably with 800 votes, about 570 more votes than the runner-up, said his party is keeping apace with changes in Tunisian society.
Ennahda is a "Tunisian movement that is evolving with... Tunisia and is part of its evolution," Ghannouchi said, according to local media.
"From today, we are seriously moving towards becoming a national and civil political party with an Islamic core, which operates under the country's constitution and inspires Muslim and modern values," he said.
Ghannouchi, 74 — an intellectual who once advocated a strict application of Islamic law — founded the Islamic Tendency Movement in 1981 along with others inspired by Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
The movement became Ennahda in 1989.
The party was legalized after the 2011 uprising.
Ghannouchi, who lived in exile for 20 years, returned to a triumphal welcome after the uprising and won post-revolution elections in October 2011.
But two years later he had to step aside amid a deep political crisis.
In 2014, the secularist Nidaa Tounes party of President Beji Caid Essebsi won parliamentary elections, beating Ennahda which came second.
On the eve of the congress, French daily Le Monde published an interview with the party leader in which he said there was no longer any room for "political Islam" in post-Arab Spring Tunisia.
"Tunisia is now a democracy. The 2014 constitution has imposed limits on extreme secularism and extreme religion," he was quoted as saying.
Around 1,200 Ennahda delegates are meeting for the three-day meeting that opened Friday in Hammamet, south of Tunis, to discuss the party's future and adopt economic, political and social roadmaps.


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