Ennahdha celebrated its 33th anniversary at a popular rally in Gabes, last Saturday, where its leader Rached Ghannouchi seized the opportunity to restate the movement’s vision and policy guidelines. Ghannouchi said that there is no need for a vetting law to ban remnants of the former regime from politics and that Tunisians know best to whom to entrust their future. This was aimed at reducing unease among the Ennahdha’s support base for the movement’s compromise on the issue. It also coincided with President Mouncef Merzouki’s inauguration of the kick-off meeting of the Truth and Dignity Commission tasked with investigating all abuses since the independence of Tunisia. Ghannouchi said that Ennahdha’s position was to hold parliamentary elections before the presidential ones, in order to avoid the polarization experienced last year. This was a message to Beji Caid Essebsi’s Nida Tounes that insists on presidential elections first. Nevertheless, Ghannouchi explained that Ennahdha believes that consensus is the way forward because “no party is capable of ruling Tunisia alone.”
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