After the failure of the Brotherhood in Tunisia.. Is Kais Saied ending the legacy of Ennahdha and its corruption?
The Tunisian Ennahdha Movement, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, failed to ruin the referendum on the constitution called for by Tunisian President Kais Saied.
Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of the Tunisian Party, tried to mobilize parties to refuse to participate in the referendum while he was being tried on charges of corruption and the financing of terrorism. However, his attempt failed and only three parties responded to him. The Islamist parties did not find a way out of the economic and social crisis.
Brotherhood plans
The French newspaper Kapitalis confirmed that the Tunisian Ennahdha Movement was planning to recruit Tunisian youth and integrate them into the mold of the Islamic State, but they failed to mobilize young people.
For the Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood guide, Rached Ghannouchi, Islamic Sharia should govern society because the specificity of Islam is a universal system of society, and once they came to power, in 2012, the Islamists followed this logic. Article 39 of the 2014 constitution, which was strongly inspired by it, stipulated that “the state guarantees the origin of the youth in their Arab and Islamic identity and national belonging”, which is the same principle that ISIS has worked through the radicalization of young people, until they turn into bloodthirsty monsters. However, the Islamists have stopped the moderate plan, Ennahdha and responded to the Tunisian rule, and the people’s The Tunisian group failed miserably. The group failed to save Tunisia from major economic crises, caused endless social crises, started to rule alone, and tried to remove powers from President Kais Saied, which infuriated the Tunisian street. There is no place for movement in Tunisian politics or the street.
Corruption of Ghannouchi
Euro News, the European network, confirmed that the investigation with Ghannouchi that started last Tuesday in the money laundering cases will further reduce the popularity of the party and the group in Tunisia, which was shown in the fact that only dozens of the movement’s supporters gathered in front of the court to support Ghannouchi. The session comes less than a week before President Kais Saied held a referendum on a new constitution that would significantly expand his powers in a step rejected by Ennahdha, claiming that it is illegal.
A judicial official told Reuters that the judge had investigated Ghannouchi over suspicions of money laundering linked to foreign funds paid to an association linked to Ennahdha. Local media reported that he would also be investigated for his suspected links to terrorism. Ghannouchi said last week that the investigation was politically motivated, pointing out that Said was exploiting the referendum and pushing Tunisia towards dictatorship.
However, the timing of the referendum with the investigation of Ghannouchi caused panic and concern within the Muslim Brotherhood, because these investigations are bound to increase the popularity of the Tunisian president and push the people to approve the constitution, especially since all the procedures of the investigation with Ghannouchi were legal and his rights were never violated. He was left free to move in court, and he returned home in the evening safely. Rached Ghannouchi, 81, has been under investigation since June on suspicion of corruption and money laundering linked to transfers from abroad to the Tunisian Development Association affiliated to the Ennahdha movement. Within the same investigation, the Tunisian courts arrested the former prime minister and the leader of Ennahdha Hamadi Jebali last month, who is still suspected of involvement in “money laundering”, who must appear on July 20 Before the judicial pole, and in early July, the judiciary ordered the separate freezing of bank accounts of Rached Ghannouchi and dozens of members of his family and party on 27 June, and prevented judicial authorities from traveling abroad as part of another investigation into the 2013 assassination of two leftist leaders.
