TUNIS (Reuters) - A black and white photograph on Rached Ghannouchi's desk shows him as a young activist proclaiming the birth of a Tunisian Islamist movement that three decades later would win the first elections after the Arab uprisings.
But having inspired Islamists across the Middle East by rising to power following Tunisia's 2011 popular revolution, Ghannouchi's moderate Islamist Ennahda party now finds itself within weeks of voluntarily stepping down.
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