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A leader in Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, Lotfi Zitoun, has officially announced his resignation as a political advisor to the movement’s head, Sheikh Rached Ghannouchi.
“Today (Monday, July 8, 2019), I informed Mr. Rached Al-Ghannouchi of the official renunciation of the status of political advisor to the Chairman of Nahdha Movement of TunisiaLotfi Zitoun,” Zitoun said in a statement on Facebook.
Zitoun, who was described as the closest person to the Ghannouchi during his years in exile, did not clarify the reasons for his resignation.
On 5 July Zitoun wrote on Facebook: “There are functions without positions and positions without function, and there are functions without glory and glories without function,” a message which may clarify his action.
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