Mohamed Brahmi

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Mohamed Brahmi
محمد براهمي
Member of the Constituent Assembly
In office
22 November 2011 – 25 July 2013
Succeeded byFadhel Saghraoui
ConstituencySidi Bouzid
Leader of the People's Movement
In office
8 March 2011 – 7 July 2013[1]
Preceded byPosition created
Succeeded byZouhair Maghzaoui
Personal details
Born(1955-05-15)15 May 1955
Independent
Other political
affiliations		People's Movement[2]
SpouseMbarka Aouinia Brahmi
Childrenfive (four daughters and one son)
Alma materTunis University

Mohamed Brahmi (

Tunisian Arabic: محمد براهمي‎; 15 May 1955 – 25 July 2013) was a Tunisian politician. Brahmi was the founder and former leader of the People's Movement,[1] which, under his leadership, won two seats in the constituent election in 2011.[2]

Early life and career

Brahmi was born on 15 May 1955 in

Technical College of Menzel Bourguiba.[2]

Later, he worked in the Office of Irrigation, and then in real estate from 1985 to 1993. He did consultancy work as an auditor for the Technical Cooperation Agency in Saudi Arabia. From 2004, he worked as the manager of a real estate business specializing in residential properties.[2]

Politics

Brahmi was an active member of the Arab Progressive Unionist Students until 2005, at which point he left and founded the

Tunisian revolution, he founded the People's Movement and became the general secretary of the group.[3] The party later joined the Popular Front on 13 April 2013.[2][4] However, Brahmi and other members of the movement left the front on 7 July due to criticisms of the movements' central and regional leaders over cooperation with the front.[3]

Brahmi was known for his socialist and

Ennahda Movement.[6]

Assassination

Brahmi's funeral procession

On 25 July 2013, Brahmi was fatally shot in Tunis outside his

Ariana home in front of his wife and children by two men on a motorcycle.[7] He received 11 bullets and died later that day in a hospital in Ariana district of Tunis.[8]

Brahmi's death followed the assassination of opposition leader

Salafist being sought on suspicion of smuggling weapons from Libya.[10][11]

A state funeral was held for Brahmi[12] and tens of thousands of people attended the procession to the Jellaz Cemetery in Tunis.[1] During Brahmi's funeral, protesters called for the government to be toppled, while police fired tear gas on them.[13]

Protest

Following his death, hundreds of his supporters, including relatives and party members of the People's Movement, demonstrated in front of the Interior Ministry's building on Avenue Habib Bourguiba and blamed the incumbent Ennahda Party and their followers for the assassination.[5][14] Hundreds of supporters also protested in Brahmi's hometown of Sidi Bouzid.[5]

After the protests, Education Minister

scheduled general election[15]
(later postponed for the end of 2014). In January 2014, however, Ennahda replaced Larayedh with a technocrat.

Legacy

On 19 September 2013, Tunisia's interior minister told lawmakers the

CIA informed authorities Brahmi was a target and said there had been a "failure" in the security services' response. He announced an investigation had been opened.[16]

In the

Ennahda. Apart from the Popular Front (15 seats), only Afek Tounes (8 seats) had declared their support for her.[17] She later criticized the pact of Nidaa Tounes with Ennahda, "the two parties of the political right, the one liberal and the other religious," as she put it.[18]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Thousands attend funeral of Tunisian MP". Al Jazeera. 27 July 2013. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d e Salma Bouzid (25 July 2013). "Who's Who: Mohamed Brahmi". Tunisia Live. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Tunisian Speaker spurns opposition calls for parliament dissolution". BBC Monitoring International Reports. 10 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  4. ^ "Tunisia: 'Echaab' Movement Joins Popular Front". Tunis Afrique Presse. 9 April 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  5. ^ a b c d Daragahi, Borzou. Salafist identified as suspect in Tunisia assassination. Financial Times. 26 July 2013.
  6. ^ a b "Tunisia Brahmi killing: 'Same gun used' in Belaid murder". BBC News. 27 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  7. ^ Najjar, Yasmin (28 July 2013). "Tunisia buries slain politician". Magharebia. Tunis. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  8. ^ "Tunisian politician Mohamed Brahmi assassinated". BBC News. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
  9. ^ "Tunisian opposition leader Mohammed Brahmi shot dead". CBS News. 26 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  10. ^ a b c "Islamists rally to defend Tunisian government after assassination". Reuters. 26 July 2013.
  11. ^ "Tunisia opposition figures 'shot by same gun'". Al Jazeera. 26 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  12. ^ "Tunisia Brahmi murder: State funeral for MP". BBC. 27 July 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  13. ^ "Tear gas fired at Tunisian protesters". Al Jazeera. 28 July 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  14. ^ Gall, Carlotta (26 July 2013). "Second Opposition Leader Assassinated in Tunisia". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  15. Wall Street Journal. Associated Press
    . 29 July 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  16. ^ "Tunisia Says CIA Warned of Politician Murder". ABC News. American Broadcasting Company. 19 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
  17. Al Huffington Post
    (in French). 4 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
  18. ^ "Politique: Mbarka Aouinia critique "l'alliance Nidaa-Ennahdha"". Kapitalis (in French). 4 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.

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