Ahmed Brahim ( ar, أحمد إبراهيم, ''ʾAḥmad Ibrāhīm''; 14 June 1946 – 14 April 2016) was a Tunisian politician. He was the First Secretary of

Ettajdid Movement The Ettajdid Movement (''Movement for Renewal'' ; ar, حركة التجديد, ' ; french: Mouvement Ettajdid), also referred to simply as Ettajdid, was a centre-left secularist political party in Tunisia, active from 1993 to 2012. History and p ...

and the leader of the

Democratic Modernist Pole The Democratic Modernist Pole ( ar, القطب الديمقراطي الحداثي) (french: Pôle démocratique moderniste) (PDM) was a Tunisian political coalition created for the Tunisian Constituent Assembly election of 23 October 2011. The "P ...

until April 2012, when his party merged into the

Social Democratic Path Social Democratic Path (sometimes written as Democratic and Social Path; ar, المسار الديمقراطي الاجتماعي; french: Voie démocratique et sociale, or al-Massar) is a centre-left secularist political party in Tunisia. It wa ...

of which he became the president. He was the Ettajdid Movement's candidate for

President of Tunisia The president of Tunisia, officially the president of the Tunisian Republic ( ar, رئيس الجمهورية التونسية), is the head of state of Tunisia. Tunisia is a presidential republic, whereby the president is the head of state an ...

in the 2009 presidential election. A linguist by profession, he was a professor of French at

Tunis University Tunis University ( ar, جامعة تونس, french: link=no, Université de Tunis) is a university in Tunis, Tunisia. It was founded in 1960 on the basis of earlier educational establishments. The University of Tunis is a member of the Mediterr ...

; his area of study was

comparative linguistics Comparative linguistics, or comparative-historical linguistics (formerly comparative philology) is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness. Genetic relatedness ...

Tunisian Revolution

After the fall of

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, he was appointed by the new government as the Minister of Higher Education and left the post on 7 March.

Political positions

Brahim is in favor of the emergence of a "democratic modern and ''

secular Secularity, also the secular or secularness (from Latin ''saeculum'', "worldly" or "of a generation"), is the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion. Anything that does not have an explicit reference to religion, either negativ ...

'' aiciststate" not connected with Islamists. According to Brahim, this would require "radical" reform of the electoral system, which would improve the political climate in guaranteeing freedom of assembly and a large scale independent press, as well as repealing a law that regulated public discourse of electoral candidates.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brahim, Ahmed 1946 births 2016 deaths People from Medenine Governorate Ettajdid Movement politicians Democratic Modernist Pole politicians Government ministers of Tunisia People of the Tunisian Revolution Tunis University faculty Members of the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia