On the one hand it warns against dropping references to Islam in the upcoming referendum on a new constitution. ——————————Tunisia’s Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party warned Monday against dropping references to Islam in a new constitution set to go to referendum next month. Ennahdha was parliament’s biggest party and a key player in the government dismissed in the president’s power grab. Sadeq Belaid said that would include erasing the first article, which says Tunisia is “a free, independent and sovereign state, Islam is its religion and Arabic is its language”. Article one of the 2014 constitution also appeared in Tunisia’s first constitution in 1959, after its independence from France.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 16, 2022 22:02 UTC