{"id":285971,"date":"2011-03-01T19:22:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T19:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/01\/tunisia-islamist-movement-legalised\/"},"modified":"2011-03-01T19:22:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T19:22:07","slug":"tunisia-islamist-movement-legalised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/01\/tunisia-islamist-movement-legalised\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Islamist Movement Legalised"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"63.1298038162\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/7305b8cerfi-logo-en.jpg\" alt=\"Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" title=\"Visit Radio France Internationale (Paris)\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p> 1 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Tunisia&#8217;s Islamist movement Ennahda, which was banned for 30 years under the previous regime, was legalised Tuesday. Also on Tuesday two more ministers resigned from the interim government.<\/p>\n<p>Rached Ghannouchi, a former radical preacher, founded the Ennahda, or Awakening, movement in 1981 with intellectuals who were inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The group was denied legal status once Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali took power in Tunisia in 1987. Nevertheless, the coalition won 17 per cent of the vote in the 1989 general elections.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>Ghannouchi returned to Tunisia at the end of January after living nearly 20 years in exile, mostly in London. He still officially faces a life sentence for plotting against the president.<\/p>\n<p>The new government has prepared an amnesty law for convicted activists like Ghannouchi, but it still needs to be voted on in the parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Ghannouchi says he is more moderate than he was when the movement was founded. He said he would not run in the presidential elections to be held by mid-July, however the movement plans to run parliamentary candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on Tuesday two more ministers left the government, further weakening the interim ruling authority.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Ibrahim, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, who is the head of the Ettajdid party, said he could better serve his country working outside the government.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Local Development, Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, from the Progressive<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Party, announced his resignation, and criticised the &#8220;hesitation and fuzziness&#8221; of the interim government.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Ghannouchi, who stayed on as Prime Minister after Ben Ali was ousted, quit on Sunday. Two other ministers who were also part of Ben Ali&#8217;s regime resigned on Monday, Technology Minister Mohamed Afif Chelbi and Planification and International Cooperation Minister Mohamed Nouri Jouini.<\/p>\n<p><i><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/africa\/20110301-tunisian-islamist-movement-legalised\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read or Listen to this story on the RFI website<\/a><\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103010940.html\" title=\"Tunisia: Islamist Movement Legalised\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tunisia: Islamist Movement Legalised<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 1 March 2011 Tunisia&#8217;s Islamist movement Ennahda, which was banned for 30 years under the previous regime, was legalised Tuesday. 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