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On 31 December 2021, Ennahda claimed in a statement that the party's Vice President and member of the Tunisian Parliament, Noureddine El-Beheiry, had been abducted by “security forces with civilian clothes and taken to an unknown destination.” [48] [49] On 2 January 2022, AFP reported that El-Beheiry had been rushed to intensive care at a ...
Rached Ghannouchi (Arabic: راشد الغنوشي, romanized: Rāshid al-Ghannūshī; born 22 June 1941 [1]), also spelled Rachid al-Ghannouchi or Rached el-Ghannouchi, is a Tunisian politician, [2] the co-founder of the Ennahdha Party and serving as its intellectual leader. [3]
The office of President of Egypt was established in 1953. The president is the head of state of Egypt and the Supreme Commander of the Egyptian Armed Forces.The current president is Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has effectively controlled the country since the 2013 coup d'état, and was officially elected president in 2014.
The Ennahda Movement had long been banned in the political spectrum by former President Ben Ali, most notably in the 1989 elections where some of its members had to run independently due to government repression. [25]
The coup was immediately denounced by Ennahda, the Dignity Coalition and the Heart of Tunisia, the three main parties in parliament. [34] Former president Moncef Marzouki, who oversaw the transition to democracy after the revolution, also rejected the coup, calling it "the beginning of slipping into an even worse situation". [18] [22] [34]
The Troika was an unofficial name for the alliance between the three parties (Ennahda, Ettakatol, and CPR) that ruled in Tunisia after the 2011 Constituent Assembly election. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Ali Laarayedh stepped down as prime minister on 9 January 2014; [ 3 ] Mehdi Jomaa was appointed in his place on 10 January 2014.
It was the first time presidential elections had been held since 1974, as Habib Bourguiba had been declared President-for-life the following year. However, Bourguiba was declared medically unfit to rule in 1987, and was succeeded by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. In the presidential election, Ben Ali was the only candidate to obtain ...
He was the first president who was not an heir to the legacy of the country's founding president, Habib Bourguiba. On 14 December, one day after his accession to office, he appointed Hamadi Jebali of the moderate Islamist Ennahda Movement as Prime Minister. [13] Jebali presented his government on 20 December. [14]