Rached Ghannouchi heads Tunisia\'s ruling Ennahda party Tunis – Azhar Jarboui Tunisia\'s Popular Front party has announced its intention to launch a new campaign, entitled \"Leave,\" aiming to overthrow officials from the Islamist Ennahda Movement .
Sources revealed to Arab Today that members from the party are \"upset\" over the close relationship between Ennahda and opposition party Nidaa Tounes, following a secret meeting between both party leaders, Rachid Ghannouchi and Beji Caid Essebsi, in Paris last Thursday.
Tunisia\'s ruling Islamist party Ennahda announced on Sunday it was ready to meet opposition parties without preconditions to seek a consensus on how to resolve the country\'s worst political crisis since its 2011 Arab Spring revolution.
The Tunisian Popular Front - which includes more than ten leftist and nationalist opposition parties - ?revealed that it was subject to a \"fierce campaign\" by Ennahda, which the Front believes is trying to \"strike the Salvation Front from inside.\"
Hamma Hammami, spokesman of the Popular Front said: \"Ennahda is trying to strike ?the Salvation Front and isolate its leftist components represented in the Popular Front. At the same time, it is rekindling relationships with its liberal allies.\"
Hammami believes the Islamist group\'s attempts will \"not succeed,\" pointing out the importance of \"?adhering to allies of the Salvation Front.\"
He added: \"The tactics of Ennahda have now become clear. The party is using all means to annihilate isolation by manipulation and attempting to divide opponents, without actually offering any ways to resolve the current crisis.\"
The spokesman then went on to call the group \"violent, chaotic and extremist.\"
Ennahda revealed on Sunday that its leader Rached Ghannouchi had met the chief of the opposition party Nidaa Tounes, ex-premier Beji Caid Essebsi, a sworn enemy of the Islamists, while on a European tour last week.
Few details of the meeting emerged, but late on Sunday Ennahda\'s decision-making body said it endorsed the position of Ghannouchi, who has proposed a broad-based national unity government while rejecting opposition calls for the formation of a technocrat administration.
Political observers in Tunisia are now concerned about the situation in the country, calling for the regime and opposition to \"avoid the threats of becoming another Egypt\" and \"accept compromises\" to end the crisis.