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Tunisian: Al-Nahda Party Ahead in First Free Elections
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Al-Nahda Islamic Party official said on Monday that their party appeared to be ahead in Tunisia's first free election since the Jasmine revolution that set off the Arab Spring and reshaped the regional political map.
According to the source, al-Nahda party seems to have the biggest share of the vote, as so far polls indicate the party gets 20 to 40 percent of the votes.
Tunisian radio read out voting figures it obtained from some districts in Beja that showed al-Nahda in the lead, with the centre-left Congress for the Republic Party also doing well.
"The results are very good for al-Nahda. We don't want to give details but it's clear that al-Nahda has enjoyed a level of success that in some cases equals the results of the voting abroad," al-Nahda official said.
Turnout in the vote, for an assembly which will sit for one year and draft a new constitution, was more than 90 percent -- a mark of Tunisians' determination to exercise their new democratic rights after decades of repression.
With an unexpectedly large number of ballot papers to count, election officials said it was likely to be Monday or even later before they have results to announce.
Al-Nahda's leader Rachid Ghannouchi, who spent 22 years in exile in Britain, models his party on the moderate Islamist rule of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.
He says his party will respect women's rights and not try to enforce any personal morality code on Tunisians.
When Ghannouchi emerged from the polling station where he cast his vote on Sunday, about a dozen secularists shouted at him: "Degage", French for "Go away", the same word they shouted at ousted President Mohammad Bou Azizi during the revolution.
For his part, interim president Foued Mebazaa said he would step down after the historic election.
Al-Nahda Islamic Party official said on Monday that their party appeared to be ahead in Tunisia's first free election since the Jasmine revolution that set off the Arab Spring and reshaped the regional political map.
According to the source, al-Nahda party seems to have the biggest share of the vote, as so far polls indicate the party gets 20 to 40 percent of the votes.
Tunisian radio read out voting figures it obtained from some districts in Beja that showed al-Nahda in the lead, with the centre-left Congress for the Republic Party also doing well.
"The results are very good for al-Nahda. We don't want to give details but it's clear that al-Nahda has enjoyed a level of success that in some cases equals the results of the voting abroad," al-Nahda official said.
Turnout in the vote, for an assembly which will sit for one year and draft a new constitution, was more than 90 percent -- a mark of Tunisians' determination to exercise their new democratic rights after decades of repression.
With an unexpectedly large number of ballot papers to count, election officials said it was likely to be Monday or even later before they have results to announce.
Al-Nahda's leader Rachid Ghannouchi, who spent 22 years in exile in Britain, models his party on the moderate Islamist rule of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.
He says his party will respect women's rights and not try to enforce any personal morality code on Tunisians.
When Ghannouchi emerged from the polling station where he cast his vote on Sunday, about a dozen secularists shouted at him: "Degage", French for "Go away", the same word they shouted at ousted President Mohammad Bou Azizi during the revolution.
For his part, interim president Foued Mebazaa said he would step down after the historic election.
"I will recognize the results whoever wins and whatever the color of the majority (in the future assembly)", Mebazaa told the Arabic language Assabah appearing Sunday.
Source: News Agencies
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