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Hafedh Caïd Essebsi

Date of Birth: 1 August 1961


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Nobbling Nabil

A founder member of NT – whose successful election campaigns KKW promoted in 2014 – Karoui split from the President when preference for his ambitious son Hafedh Caïd Essebsi alienated swathes of NT members...


Eight years of transition

Essebsi's own efforts to promote his son Hafedh Caïd Essebsi's presidential credentials lost momentum when they met strong resistance in the NT...


Tunis fiddles as revolt grows

Nidaa Tounes remains a dominant force its strategy shaped by BCE and with party operations in the hands of presidential son Hafedh Caïd Essebsi (HCE)...


A coalition of hope

Essebsi's Nidaa Tounus is split with strong opposition emerging to a faction led by ambitious presidential son Hafedh Caïd Essebsi (AC Vol 57 No 4 One country for old men)...


One country for old men

Her son Mohamed Hafedh Caïd Essebsi is very publicly taking over his father's political party...

He had previously been the President's leading strategist but found himself outflanked by Hafedh Essebsi and the then Presidential Cabinet Director Ridha Belhadj...

At a party congress in Sousse in January Hafedh Caïd Essebsi (aka HCE) consolidated his control of a diminished Nidaa Tounes...

Many delegates objected when he was unveiled as Hafedh Essebsi's guest of honour at the Sousse congress but the Essebsi clans sees a reinforcement of 'cohabitation' as a necessary measure given the haemorrhage of MPs to Marzouk's camp...

Hafedh Essebsi has also cultivated ties with other players in the Muslim Brotherhood tradition including Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (AC Vol 52 No 21 New rules for a new order)...


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