The Ennahda Movement (Arabic: حركة النهضة Ḥarakat an-Nahḍah; French: Mouvement Ennahda), also known as Renaissance Party (Arabic: حزب النهضة Ḥizb an-Nahḍah) 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. Since then it has become the biggest and most well-organized party in Tunisia, so far outdistancing its more secular competitors. In the 23 October 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly election, the first honest 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 (41%) of the 217 assembly seats, far more than any other party.
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