The Movement for National Reform (; french: Mouvement pour la réforme nationale) is a moderate Islamist

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. It received 9.5% of the vote in the 2002 elections and received 43 members of parliament. The party was created as a breakout faction from the

Ennahda The Ennahda Movement ( ar, حركة النهضة, Ḥarakatu n-Nahḍah; french: link=no, Mouvement Ennahdha), also known as the Renaissance Party or simply known as Ennahda, is a self-defined Islamic democratic political party in Tunisia. Fou ...

movement, after that party opted for cooperation with Algeria's government. Party leader

Abdallah Djaballah Saad Abdallah Djaballah ( ar, سعد عبدالله جاب الله (born on May 2, 1956) in Skikda) is an Algerian politician and leader of the Movement for National Reform (''Ḥarakat al-Iṣlāḥ al-Waṭaniyy'', also known as the ''MRN'' and ...

then left to found and lead the more radically oppositional el-Islah. At the

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, the party was badly defeated. It received only 2.53% of the vote and 3 seats.

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