Rached Ghannouchi, leader of the Islamist Ennahda movement, arrives surrounded by bodyguards at the National Conference on Employment in Tunis, Tunisia, March 29, 2016. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's Islamist party Ennahda will separate its political and religious work, its chief said on Friday, moving away from its tradition of political Islam.
Ennahda was the first Islamist party to come to power in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions and it took part in the first government coalition after the overthrow of Tunisia's autocratic leader Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
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