TUNIS, Tunisia — Hager Barcous, a local official for the Ennahda movement in Nice, France, announced Jan. 15 that she would withdraw her membership from the movement. She argued that Ennahda’s decisions, discourses and activities no longer represent her. She also demanded serious internal structural reforms before she resumed her partisan activity with Ennahda.
Earlier, on Jan. 14, another Ennahda member, Ziad Boumakhla, resigned from the party in a post on his Facebook account, without stating the reasons. Boumakhla had been active with Ennahda for over 10 years.