Ennahda

Ennahda Movement
حركة النهضة
Hizbu Ḥarakatu n-Nahḍah
Mouvement Ennahda
PresidentRached Ghannouchi
General SecretaryZied Ladhari
FounderRached Ghannouchi (co-founder)
Founded6 June 1981 (1981-06-06)
Legalized1 March 2011
Headquarters67, rue Oum Kalthoum
1001 Tunis
NewspaperEl-Fajr
IdeologySocial conservatism[1]
Economic liberalism[2]
Islamic democracy[3][4]

Conservative democracy[4]
Political positionCentre-right[5] to right-wing
ReligionSunni Islam
Assembly of the Representatives of the People
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The Ennahda Movement (Arabic: حركة النهضة, romanized: Ḥarakatu n-Nahḍah;[6] French: Mouvement Ennahdha), also called the Renaissance Party or the Ennahda, is Islamic democratic[7][8][9][3] political party in Tunisia.

They were founded as the Movement of Islamic Tendency in 1981.[10] The party was inspired by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.[11]

After the 2011 Tunisian revolution and collapse of the government of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the Ennahda Movement Party was formed,[12] and in the 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election (Tunisia's first free election),[13] the party won 37%[13] of the vote.[14][15][16] There was lots of debate about "Islamization" in the country. 2 politicians were assassinated This led to the 2013–14 Tunisian political crisis, and the party stepped down[17] after Tunisia's constitution was made January 2014.[18] In the 2014 Tunisian parliamentary election, the party was in 2nd place with 27.79% of the vote.[19]

Election results

Election year # of total votes % of overall vote # of seats Government
Constituent Assembly of Tunisia
2011 1,501,320 37.04%
89 / 217
Coalition(2011–2014)
Technocratic Government (2014–2015)
Assembly of the Representatives of the People
2014 947,034 27.79%
69 / 217
Coalition
2019 561,132 19.63%
52 / 217
Coalition

References

  1. ↑ "Ennahda feiert sich als Wahlsieger: Tunesien hat den Islam gewählt – Politik". Stern.De. 25 October 2011. Archived from the original on 27 October 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  2. ↑ Kaminski, Matthew (26 October 2011). "On the Campaign Trail With Islamist Democrats". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 13 July 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Ennahda leader Ghannouchi: 'We are Muslim democrats, not Islamists'". Middle East Eye. Archived from the original on 24 August 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  4. 1 2 Agence France-Presse (16 September 2011). "Erdogan tells Tunisians that Islam and democracy can work". Archived from the original on 7 June 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "Tunisia's Ennahda discusses local elections". Middle East Monitor. 28 January 2017. Archived from the original on 27 July 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  6. ↑ "The word حركة — movement — is the official term which is used by this political party". Ennahdha. Archived from the original on 22 December 2011. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
  7. ↑ "Tunisian president fires premier after violent protests". AP NEWS. 25 July 2021. Archived from the original on 5 May 2023. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  8. ↑ "Ennahda is "Leaving" Political Islam". Wilson Center. 20 May 2016. Archived from the original on 24 August 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  9. ↑ "Muslim Democrats? Tunisia's Delicate Experiment". Foreign Policy Blogs. 30 September 2016. Archived from the original on 5 May 2023. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
  10. ↑ Teyeb, Mourad (27 January 2011), "What role for the Islamists?", Al-Ahram Weekly, archived from the original on 19 January 2012, retrieved 6 November 2011
  11. ↑ Lewis, Aidan (25 October 2011). "Profile: Tunisia's Ennahda Party". BBC. Archived from the original on 27 October 2011. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
  12. ↑ "Tunisia's Islamists to form party". Al Jazeera. 1 March 2011. Archived from the original on 3 September 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
  13. 1 2 Decree of 23 Nov. 2011 about the Final Results of the National Constituent Assembly Elections (in Arabic), 2011, archived from the original on 18 November 2011
  14. ↑ Feldman, Noah (30 October 2011). "Islamists' Victory in Tunisia a Win for Democracy: Noah Feldman". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 21 January 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
  15. ↑ Tunisia's New Ennahda Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine Marc Lynch 29 June 2011
  16. ↑ Bay, Austin. "Tunisia and its Islamists: The Revolution, Phase Two". Archived from the original on 3 April 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  17. ↑ Worth, Robert F. (2016). A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS. Pan Macmillan. pp. 199–204. ISBN 9780374710712. Archived from the original on 11 January 2023. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  18. ↑ Prime Minister Larayedh Announces Resignation, Tunisia Live, 9 January 2014, archived from the original on 20 January 2014, retrieved 27 January 2014
  19. ↑ "Tunisia's main Islamist party to stay out of presidential election". Reuters. 8 September 2014. Archived from the original on 24 October 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2014.

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