A moderate Islamist party is on track to be the largest political force in Tunisia’s new assembly after a historic election in the country that sparked the Arab spring.
Early results from Sunday’s election to an assembly that will write Tunisia’s constitution showed that Nahda – banned and persecuted by Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, the president ousted in January – had won about a third of the vote.
A secular group, the Congress for the Republic, is believed to have taken second place. The turnout was 70 per cent or more – final figures are expected today.
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