Mohamed Brahmi | |
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محمد براهمي | |
Member of the Constituent Assembly | |
In office 22 November 2011 – 25 July 2013 |
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Succeeded by | Fadhel Saghraoui |
Constituency | Sidi Bouzid |
Leader of the People's Movement | |
In office 8 March 2011 – 7 July 2013 |
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Preceded by | Position created |
Succeeded by | Zouhair Maghzaoui |
Personal details | |
Born |
Sidi Bouzid, Sidi Bouzid Governorate, Tunisia |
15 May 1955
Died | 25 July 2013 Ariana, Tunisia |
(aged 58)
Political party | Independent |
Other political affiliations |
People's Movement |
Spouse(s) | Mbarka Aouinia Brahmi |
Children | five (four daughters and one son) |
Alma mater | Tunis University |
Mohamed Brahmi (Tunisian 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, which, under his leadership, won two seats in the constituent election in 2011.
Brahmi was born on 15 May 1955 in Sidi Bouzid, capital of the Sidi Bouzid Governorate. He graduated from his Alma Mater, 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.
Later, he worked in the Office of Irrigation, and then in real estate from 1985 to 1993. He did 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.
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. The party later joined the Popular Front on 13 April 2013. 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.
Brahmi was known for his socialist and Arab nationalist beliefs, particularly in the tradition of Gamal Abdel Nasser. 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.