Unidentified gunmen shot and killed Brahmi outside his home in Ariana, a northern suburb of Tunis, before fleeing on motorbikes, according to Tunisian radio station Mosaique FM. Notably, this was not the first time Brahmi had been targeted. Unidentified assailants reportedly tried to kill him in January 2011, though the details of that attack are still unclear. Brahmi was a former secretary-general of the Nasserism-inspired People's Movement, or Echaab Movement. On April 9, he announced that his party had joined the Tunisian Popular Front, a coalition of a dozen or so secular, leftist political parties and independents united in their opposition to Islamism. Belaid, who was killed in January, was a former coordinator of that coalition. Competing Powers Tunisia has been gridlocked politically ever since Ben Ali was forced from office. Ben Ali's power derived from his consolidation of the Constitutional Democratic Rally.