I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy.

I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.

There are common denominators that unite all members of al-Nahda: There is no one in al-Nahda who doubts about Islam There is no one in al-Nahda that believes in extremist views of Islam.

The dictatorship needs to be entirely dismantled. All the rest of the old guard must go.