Tag: Tunisia
Presidential Elections: Revolution, Counter-Revolution, and the Second Wave
The election of Beji Caid Essebsi President of Tunisia in last December’s elections motivated different readings among analysts. For some of them Essebsi’s election symbolised the “final phase of a counter-revolution that closed the Arab Spring parenthesis that was opened...
Divisions within Nidaa Tounes Delay Formation of New Government
Almost two weeks after his designation to form a new government, Habib Essid has not yet managed to reconcile all key actors and stakeholders to be able to do so. The Popular Front, with 16 seats in the parliament, had...
Realpolitik Prevails
On Monday 2 February, PM Habib Essid announced a revised composition of his cabinet following lengthy negotiations with the main political parties represented in the National Assembly. Despite deep disagreement within Nidaa Tounes, Ennahdha was attributed the employment portfolio in...
A President for All? Caid Essebsi Enrages Southern Tunisians.
Beji Caid Essebsi’s statement on a French TV channel, in which he declared that it was thanks to “Ennahdha, Islamists and Jihadi Salafis that Moncef Marzouki managed to go through to the second round of presidential elections” has triggered a...
Presidential Elections: Not without Surprises
As was expected, Mouncif Merzouki and Beji Caid Esebssi emerged as the top two favourites of voters in the first round of Tunisia’s presidential election. Partial and unofficial results show that Essebsi obtained around 39.46 % and Merzouki 33.43% of...
Two Weeks before Elections Ennahdha Maintains the Suspense
Late on Saturday night, 8 November, Ennahdha’s consultative council announced its call on its members to vote massively in favor of those whom they deem fit to serve the national interests of Tunisia, in the upcoming 23 November presidential elections....
Ennahdha-Nidaa Tounes: A complicated Story
On the day the electoral campaign for the upcoming Nov.23 presidential election kicked off, Ennahdha’s Shura (Consultative) council convened for a two-day meeting to ponder over the movement’s position as far as which candidate to support. Ennahdha movement that is...
Ennahdha’s Election Score: Electoral Defeat or Strategic Retreat?
Early partial results of the 26 October general elections in Tunisia have indicated that Beji Caid Essebsi’s Nidaa Tounes is leading in this second electoral test since the 2011 Constituent Assembly elections in which Ennahdha enjoyed a landslide victory by...