Ghannouchi continues attempts to return to the Tunisian political scene
The leader of Ennahdha, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is classified as a terrorist group in some countries, continued his attempts to distance himself from the crimes of the movement during the last decade by spreading lies, while thousands of Tunisians protested to hold the movement and its leader, Rached Ghannouchi, accountable. Ghannouchi claimed that the line of return for Tunisian political life is still possible.
Tunisian radio website Mosaïque FM reported that Ghannouchi, the former speaker of the dissolved parliament, said in a television interview: The “line of return is still possible”, he said, noting that dialog between the so-called elites is the only solution to any dispute.
While the movement feels the direction of Tunisian society to exclude it and hold it accountable for the recent crimes of decency, Ghannouchi preempted the issue by saying: “The most dangerous idea is exclusion and exclusion”.
Ghannouchi conceded that he and the movement had made mistakes that he did not clarify. “We have made mistakes, no doubt, and the first mistake we made was that we elected a president, which we should not have opposed today”, he said, referring to Tunisian President Kais Saied who has dealt several blows to the Brotherhood movement involved in documents and evidence in several crimes, most notably the assassinations of a number of political activists in 2013, most notably Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi.
In early February, the defense team identified the two martyrs Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi with documents implicating Ennahdha and its leader Rached Ghannouchi in the political assassinations of a number of political activists, foremost among them Belaid in the Brotherhood. Ghannouchi and his son, as well as others, are implicated in money laundering and suspicious financial transactions with parties linked to the State of Qatar to finance the travel of young Tunisians to Syria to join ISIS camps, attacks on the internal security of the state and spying on Tunisians, the statement said.
Ghannouchi continued his lies in an attempt to erase the stigma of terrorism and assassinations of a number of political activists from the movement, saying: “We withdrew from power in 2013 when the situation got worse and when there became a tendency to turn against the Arab revolutions, as happened in Egypt”, however, the movement was forced to leave the government unwillingly under pressure from the opposition, which turned into popular pressure, most notably the Departure Sit-in and the marches of August 2013, in addition to the aggravation of the terrorist phenomenon in Tunisia, which was closely linked to Ennahdha and its relationship with Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations, and which shook the country’s security and stability again, leading to weaken the government further.
