Large Turnout in Tunisia's First Free Election
More than 90 per cent of registered voters are reported to have voted in Tunisia's elections on Sunday, with final results expected Tuesday afternoon. Interim president Foued Mebazaa has said he would step down after the election is completed.-
Tunisia: State Estimates Turnout At 90 Percent in First Arab Spring Election
RFI, 24 October 2011
More than 90 per cent of registered voters have turned out to vote in Tunisia's elections. Workers are manually counting the votes, with final results expected Tuesday afternoon. Read more »
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Tunisia: President Says He'll Step Down After Vote
RNW Africa, 23 October 2011
Tunisia's interim president Foued Mebazaa said he would step down after the Arab Spring's historic first election Sunday nine months after the toppling of strongman Zine el Abidine… Read more »
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Tunisia: Plethora of Parties Stand for New Constituent Assembly
RFI, 23 October 2011
In what is being hailed as the first election after the Arab Spring, Tunisians go to the polls Sunday. Read more »
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Tunisia: Nation to Vote in First Poll After Arab Spring
UN News, 22 October 2011
As Tunisians prepare to vote tomorrow in the first elections to be held in the wake of this year's Arab Spring reform movement, United Nations staff are in place to assist the… Read more »
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Tunisia: Final Day of Campaigning for Elections
RNW Africa, 21 October 2011
Campaigning closes in Tunisia Friday, two days before its first democratic elections, with a formerly banned Islamist party poised to dominate an assembly that will pave the way… Read more »
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Tunisia: Parties State Positions on Human Rights
HRW, 19 October 2011
Many parties competing in Tunisia's election for a constituent assembly on October 23, 2011, believe that basic freedoms should be protected, but they disagree about circumstances… Read more »
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Tunisia: State Can Again Be Arab Spring Pioneer With Upcoming Polls - UN Rights Chief
UN News, 21 October 2011
The United Nations human rights chief today called on Tunisia, the first country to free itself from entrenched regimes during the Arab Spring movement, to once again pioneer the… Read more »
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Tunisia: 'Hope and Challenge' - A little known part of the Country's historic election
Fahamu, 20 October 2011
Tunisia's first free elections will be held this Sunday 23 October. With more than 100 parties, there are feelings of great uncertainty as well as excitement. Different regions are… Read more »
