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Mohamed Brahmi
محمد براهمي
Member of the Constituent Assembly
In office
22 November 2011 – 25 July 2013
Leader of the People's Movement
In office
8 March 2011 – 7 July 2013[1]
Preceded byPosition created
Personal details
Born(1955-05-15)15 May 1955
Sidi Bouzid, Sidi Bouzid Governorate, Tunisia
Died25 July 2013(2013-07-25) (aged 58)
Tunis, Tunisia
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations		People's Movement[2]
Alma materTunis University

Mohamed Brahmi (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 Sidi Bouzid, capital of the Sidi Bouzid Governorate. He graduated from the Higher Institute of Management at Tunis University with a Master's Degree in accounting in 1982. After his graduation he taught as a professor of economics and management for two years at the Technical College of Menzel Bourguiba.[2]

He later worked in the Office of Irrigation, and then in real estate from 1985 to 1993. He found 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 Nasserist Unionist Movement; an illegal party under the Ben Ali government. After 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 Arab nationalist beliefs,[5][6] particularly in the tradition of Gamal Abdel Nasser.[5] He was a practicing Muslim. Although a member of the anti-Islamist Popular Front, he did not have a reputation for being especially critical of Islamists, and in fact had many friends in the ruling Islamist Ennahda Movement.[6]

Death

Brahmi was fatally shot on 25 July 2013 in Tunis in front of his wife and children by two men on a motorcycle. He was shot 14 times and died later that day in a hospital in Aryanah.[7] 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][8] Hundreds of supporters also protested in Brahmi's hometown of Sidi Bouzid.[5]

Brahmi's death followed the assassination of opposition leader Chokri Belaid, killed on 6 February, in 2013. The two were members of the same left-winged coalition.[9] Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou told a news conference: "The same 9mm automatic weapon that killed Belaid also killed Brahmi."[10] The suspect in both murders was identified as Boubacar Hakim[10], a 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 the funeral procession, protesters called for the government to be toppled, while police fired tear gas on them.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Thousands attend funeral of Tunisian MP". Al Jazeera English. 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. 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. 2013-07-26.
  6. ^ a b "Tunisia Brahmi killing: 'Same gun used' in Belaid murder". BBC News. 27 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  7. ^ "Tunisian politician Mohamed Brahmi assassinated". BBC News. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
  8. ^ Gall, Carlotta (26 July 2013). "Second Opposition Leader Assassinated in Tunisia". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 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". 26 July 2013.
  11. ^ "Tunisia opposition figures 'shot by same gun'". Al Jazeera English. 26 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  12. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23475178
  13. ^ http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/07/201372710011814239.html

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