Tunisians Vote For Post-Arab Spring President
Tunisians voted Sunday in the runoff of the first free presidential election in the North African country's history, the final leg of a ...
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Tunisians voted Sunday in the runoff of the first free presidential election in the North African country's history, the final leg of a bumpy four-year transition whose beginning heralded the Arab Spring.
The second round vote pits 88-year-old favourite Beji Caid Essebsi, leader of the anti-Islamist Nidaa Tounes party, against incumbent Moncef Marzouki, who held the post through an alliance with the moderate Islamist movement Ennahda.
Ahead of the landmark vote, which sets Tunisia apart from the turmoil of other Arab Spring countries, extremists issued a videotaped threat against the state's political establishment.
It is the first time that Tunisians have freely elected their president since independence from France in 1956.
Source: The Sunday Times
The second round vote pits 88-year-old favourite Beji Caid Essebsi, leader of the anti-Islamist Nidaa Tounes party, against incumbent Moncef Marzouki, who held the post through an alliance with the moderate Islamist movement Ennahda.
Ahead of the landmark vote, which sets Tunisia apart from the turmoil of other Arab Spring countries, extremists issued a videotaped threat against the state's political establishment.
It is the first time that Tunisians have freely elected their president since independence from France in 1956.
Source: The Sunday Times
