16 Facts About Ennahda

Ennahda Movement, known as the Renaissance Party or simply known as Ennahda, is a self-defined Islamic democratic political party in Tunisia.

In 2018, lawyers and politicians accused Ennahda of forming a secret organisation that has infiltrated security forces and the judiciary.

Ennahda denied the accusations and accused the Popular Front of slandering and distorting Ennahda.

Ennahda activists attacked the ruling party headquarters, killing one person and splashing acid in the faces of several others.

Ennahda's leaders have been described as "highly sensitive to the fears among other West about Islamic party".

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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.

Accordingly, Ennahda supported the election of Ettakatol's secretary-general Mustapha Ben Jafar as President of the Constituent Assembly, and of CPR-leader Moncef Marzouki as Interim President of the Republic.

Ennahda was part of the Troika government, along with Ettakatol, and CPR.

Ennahda rejected his resignation insisting on a government of politicians and Jebali formally resigned after a meeting with President Moncef Marzouki saying it was in the best interests of the country.

Ennahda ceded control of key ministries to technocrats, including foreign affairs, defence and the interior.

In January 2014, after the new Tunisian Constitution was adopted by popular vote, Ennahda came second in the October 2014 parliamentary election with 27.

Ennahda did not put forward or endorse any candidate for the November 2014 presidential election.

The general manager of Al Arabiya wrote an editorial expressing the opinion that Ennahda is fundamentally a conservative Islamist party with a moderate leadership.

Ennahda has been described as a mixed bag with moderate top layers and a base defined by "a distinctly fundamentalist tilt".

Presidential candidate of Ennahda in 2019, Abdelfattah Mourou, stated that homosexuality is a personal choice and that we must respected individual freedoms, but at the same time he said that he announced his support for the continuation of criminalization of homosexuality in Tunisia, where sodomy is criminalized by 3 years of imprisonment.

In 2021, Fathi Layouni, Ennahda mayor of Le Kram, declared to a local radio station that the natural place for homosexuals is either prisons or psychiatric hospitals and that they are forbidden from entering his city, he demanded the closure of the Association Shams, which is a Tunisian organization for LGBT rights.