Islah / Reform Front

Siglas: 
JI
  • Name - Original language & name in English: الجبهة الإصلاح, Hizb Jabhat al-Islah (Arabic), Al Islah or Reform Party (English). 
  • Year founded: 2012
  • Ideology: Salafist, Islamist
  • Current leader & function: Mohamed Khouja (president)
  • Number of seats in Constituent Assembly: None
  • Currently in government or in opposition: In opposition
  • Legal status: Legal political party
  • Link to official party website: No party website as yet
  • Observations: Tunisia's first Salafist political party. The party's request for legalisation was twice refused by interim Prime Minister Beji Caïd Essebsi's government on security grounds. The Ennahda-led transition government granted it official legal status in May 2012.