Tunisia: more than a hundred members of Ennahdha slam the door of the party
The president of the Tunisian Islamist party Ennahdha, Rached Ghannouchi, on September 23, 2021 in Tunis.
AFP - FETHI BELAID
Text by: RFI Follow
1 min
In Tunisia, the aftershocks of President Kaïs Saïed's coup continue to be felt.
About 100 members of the Islamist Ennahdha party have resigned from the movement.
Advertising
Read more
With our correspondent in Tunis,
Amira Souilem
It looks like an implosion.
One hundred and thirteen members of Ennahdha, including senior executives like Samir Dilou, a former party spokesperson, decided to slam the party door together.
Until now the first party in the Assembly, Ennahdha has been going through a period of turbulence since July 25, when President Kaïs Saïed decided to freeze Parliament.
Strongly discredited in public opinion for its presumed nepotism, the party has been experiencing an internal crisis for two months which has just come to light today.
In a statement, the resigners blame Rached Ghannouchi, the party president, for not having known how to manage this moment and for having refused all the advice that would have made it possible to plug the breaches within the movement.
The signatories also accuse him of being responsible for the political situation in which the country finds itself today.
Some members of the party accuse the leadership of having forged "political alliances" - described as inappropriate - to stay in power, even if it means discrediting themselves with Tunisian public opinion.
Without ever quoting it, President Kaïs Saïed frequently attacks in his speeches this movement which claims to be political Islam.
A party whose rout was accelerated by
the presidential coup of
last
July
.
► To read also: Tunisia: President Kaïs Saïed still alone in the reins of the country
Newsletter
Receive all international news directly in your mailbox
I subscribe
Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application
google-play-badge_FR
Tunisia
Kaïs Saïed