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Tunisia: Islamic party figure who announced aspirations to caliphate selected as prime minister

Nov 19, 2011 12:02 am By Marisol Seibold

“Last Sunday, [Hamadi] Jebali, the party’s number two official, alarmed some by bringing up ‘the caliphate’.”

The Ennahda party did not sweep him under the rug in embarrassment for reportedly going on about his personal aspirations to be a modern-day successor to the first few rulers of the entire Islamic world after Muhammad’s death, the “rightly guided” caliphs. They have not reacted with alarm at the implied aspirations for ruling beyond Tunisia’s borders. No, he was a favorite for the office of prime minister, and it is now more or less official that he will assume the office. That speaks volumes.

We tried to tell you. “Islamist Jebali to be Tunisian PM,” from Agence France-Presse, November 19:

Hamadi Jebali, of the Islamist Ennahda party, will be Tunisia’s next prime minister, under a deal struck between the country’s three main parties, a senior politician said.

Abdelwaheb Matar, a senior official in the Congress for the Republic party, said the parties had also agreed that his grouping’s veteran rights activist and opposition politician Moncef Marzouki would become Tunisia’s president.

Tunisians last month held historic democratic elections nine months after the January ouster of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. They were the first polls staged as a result of the Arab Spring uprisings.

Tunisians were voting for a 217-strong constituent assembly to draw up a new constitution and appoint the caretaker government until the country calls a general election.

Ennahda won the most seats, with 89.

It put forward Jebali for prime minister as it went into talks with the leftist Congress for the Republic, which won 29 seats, and Ettakatol, which won 20, over who should occupy the senior political posts.

The three parties also agreed that Mustapha Ben Jaafar of Ettakatol would occupy the third key post, president of the constituent assembly, Matar told AFP.

But the deal is subject to the approval of the assembly itself, which holds its first meeting on Tuesday, he added.

The deal was also confirmed by a leading figure inside Ettakatol, who cautioned that the discussions about the prerogatives of the future leaders had not ended.

He said an official announcement on the nominations would be made “by Monday” as talks would continue over the weekend about sharing out portfolios in the government.

The first task of the constituent assembly is to draw up a new constitution for the country after the ouster of Ben Ali by a popular uprising on January 14. The new executive will run Tunisia until general elections are called.

Jebali, 63, an Islamist, spent more than 15 years in Ben Ali’s jails. His candidature for the post of prime minister was announced by Ennahda a few days after the October 23 elections.

The Ennahda party, which vowed to pursue moderate policies after it won the elections, has provoked concern about its radical roots by evoking the caliphate and criticising single mothers.

Last Sunday, Jebali, the party’s number two official, alarmed some by bringing up “the caliphate”, an Islamic system of government based on sharia law.

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