The
Ennahda Movement ( ; ), also known as
Renaissance Party ( ) or simply
Ennahda, is a moderate
Islamist political party in
Tunisia. On 1 March 2011, after the government of
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali collapsed in the wake of the
2011 Tunisian revolution, Tunisia's interim government granted the group permission to form a political party. In the 23 October 2011
Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first free election in the country's history with a turn out of 51.1% of all eligible voters, the party won 37.04% of the popular vote and 89 of the 217 assembly seats (41%). The party stepped down in January 2014 in order to make way for the final drafting of a constitution by a neutral interim government, followed by planned elections based on the new constitution.