(MENAFN) Tunisian political leader Ridha Belhaj called on the UAE to provide financial support for the Salvation Front to help challenge the Islamist-leaning Ennahda party during a meeting at the Emirati embassy in Tunis earlier this year, Arabic media reported on Thursday.
On 12 January, a number of parties in Tunisia, including the Free National Party under the leadership of Salim Riyahi and the Tunisia Project movement under the leadership of Mohsen Marzouk, announced the formation of a new political alliance they called the Salvation Front.
Belhaj, who is a former leader in the secular-leaning Nidaa Tounes Party, is among the founders of the Salvation Front.
According to the Arabi21 news website, minutes of the meeting that took place between a senior UAE diplomat and Belhaj showed that the latter requested financial and media support in order to counter the Islamist Ennahda Movement.
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