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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Angus McDowall

Tunisia's Islamist who went from kingmaker to opposition

Rached Ghannouchi, the head of Islamist Ennahda party and former speaker of the parliament, during an interview with Reuters at his office in Tunis, Tunisia, July 15, 2022. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

Tunisia's Rached Ghannouchi is coming full circle.

From political prisoner and exile before the 2011 revolution to kingmaker and parliament speaker after it, the Islamist leader is back under investigation by authorities while an adversary sits in the presidential palace.

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