Tunisia: Leading Party Reaffirms Commitment to Arab-Muslim Identity

Yesterday, the Islamist party Ennahda declared on national evening television that it would keep intact Article 1 of the 1959 Tunisian Constitution.

Article 1 of Tunisia's first constitution explicitly states that Tunisia is a free, sovereign, and independent state, whose "religion is Islam, language is Arabic, and regime is republic."

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