Ennahda Press Conference

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Ennahda Press Conference

Tunisian vote’s results on Tuesday were not made public yet, but it would seem that the preliminary polls that were giving Ennahda party as the winner of the first free and democratic elections ever to be organized in an Arab land will be confirmed. Ennahda, a moderate Muslim party, won about 30 percent of the votes and will have half of the seats in the 217-seat Constituent Assembly.
A Tunisian writer said in an interview on Tuesday that Tunisia, which has sparked the Arab Spring is now in the position of sparking a second stage of the revolution: to have a country with a moderate Islamic party in power.
The idea used to be inconceivable and created concerns for the Western countries in the past, the writer added.
Another political writer in Tunisia said that the victory of a Tunisian Islamic moderate party in a democratic frame is sure to inspire nations all over the Arab world.
On Tuesday, Ennahda announced that it would ally itself with the secular parties to the purpose of giving the country a government that would have a very strong support in the parliament.
The leaders of the Congress for the Republic on Tuesday announced that they would accept the proposition made by Ennahda to form an alliance in order for a coalition government to be established.
Ennahda said they had a moderate interpretation of Islam and consequently they would not touch the family laws in the country, which in the 1950s have abolished the polygamy and offered women equality with men and equal rights. The party also pledged to respect the religious freedom of all the citizens.
The leaders of the party said that they had discussions with the leaders of other parties, like Ettakatol and the Congress for the Republic and they desire to establish an broadly represented government, not to monopolize the power.
The party which was established by Islamic scholar Rashid Ghannouchi was the frontrunner in the elections and is expected to be a trend setter for other moderate Islamic parties in the Arab world, especially in Egypt, which is preparing to hold elections in November.
Ghannouchi returned to Tunisia soon after the president Ben Ali was ousted, and resumed his place in the Tunisian society after years of exile demanded by the anti-Islamic attitude of the president, who forbade all Islamic manifestation in the country.
The Tunisian elections came at a time when the international media was announcing the unexpected demise of the Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi, and the liberation proclamation of the National Transitional Council.
The NTC announced on Sunday that Libya would become an Islamic republic, with Shariah as the fundamental source of the legislation. On Monday, the leaders explained the European and American public that Libya would not become a fundamentalist country, but a moderate one.
The NTC also announced that a constituent assembly would be put in place and that it would draft a constitution for the country, and that then another round of elections would be held allowing the Libyans to vote a government.
The Tunisians manifested a great interest toward the electoral process, the first one in their country ever, and for that matter they wanted to make sure that nothing tempers with the correctness and the free character of elections.
They observed elections in Poland and learnt from the democratic process in the country that holds the rotating presidency of the European Union and came itself out of the totalitarian experience of the communism.
Then the Tunisians allow some 14,000 foreign observers to watch the way the process was going, and they haven’t been able to spot irregularities, as the population behaved very democratically.

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