Le Monde n’a pas grand chose à t’apprendre sur le parti islamiste tunisien Ennahda (ou en-Nahda, ou al-Nahda), à part qu’il est donné vainqueur des élections. Le New York Times (signalé par @angryarab) révèle d’où vient l’argent qui a permis aux islamistes tunisiens de financer leur campagne. La contre-révolution orchestrée par l’Arabie séoudite se met en place.
►http://www.lemonde.fr/tunisie/article/2011/10/24/tunisie-ennahda-s-engage-a-respecter-les-droits-des-femmes-et-des-minorites_
Le parti islamiste Ennahda, donné vainqueur des élections tunisiennes de dimanche, a affirmé lundi 24 octobre son engagement à respecter les droits acquis des Tunisiennes et des minorités religieuses dans le pays.
« Nous respecterons les droits de la femme sur la base du code de statut personnel et de légalité entre les Tunisiens quels que soient leur religion, leur sexe ou leur appartenance sociale », a déclaré Nourreddine Bhiri, membre de la direction du parti islamiste.
La percée d’Ennahda sur la scène politique a fait craindre dans le camp laïque une remise en question du statut des femmes en Tunisie. Les Tunisiennes disposent d’un statut juridique enviable dans le monde arabo-musulman : la loi en vigueur interdit la polygamie et la répudiation, permet l’avortement libre et donne droit au divorce judiciaire.
Tunisia Election Faces Financing Questions - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/world/africa/tunisia-election-faces-financing-questions.html
But for months, it has been at the center of attacks from liberal rivals and liberal-leaning election officials who accuse it of taking foreign money, mainly from the Persian Gulf. Islamist groups from Egypt to Lebanon are widely believed to rely on such support from the wealthier and more conservative gulf nations, but the charges have resonated especially loudly in Tunisia, in part because regulators have sought to stamp it out.
“Everybody says that Ennahda is backed by money from the Arabian gulf,” said Ahmed Ibrahim, the founder of the liberal Democratic Modernist Pole coalition, calling the outsize influence of foreign money a threat to Tunisia’s “fragile democracy.”
Though Ennahda’s sources of financing have not been disclosed, its resources are evident. The first party to open offices in towns across the country, Ennahda soon blanketed Tunisia with fliers, T-shirts, signs and bumper stickers. Unlike other parties here, it operates out of a gleaming high-rise in downtown Tunis, gives away professionally published paperbacks in several languages to lay out its platform, distributes wireless headsets for simultaneous translation at its news conferences and hands out bottled water to the crowds at rallies.
Ennahda party members have sponsored local charitable events like a recent group wedding for eight couples in the town of Den Den, or giveaways of meat for the feast at the end of Ramadan.
Alarmed at the flood of money, the commission overseeing the political transition sought last June to impose rules limiting campaign spending, banning foreign contributions and even barring candidates from giving interviews to foreign-owned news media, a move thought to be aimed mainly at thwarting the potential of the Qatar-owned network Al Jazeera to favor Ennahda candidates.
In response, Ennahda withdrew its representative on the commission. Party officials have variously said that they pulled out because the commission was overstepping its authority, or that the restrictions curtailed their ability to reach Tunisians in expensive precincts abroad. But members of the commission say Ennahda objected only to the restrictions on foreign fund-raising.