Tunisians vote in first 'Arab Spring' election

al- Reuters ^ | October 23, 2011 | Andrew Hammond and Tarek Amara

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Tunisian voters stood in long queues on Sunday, seizing the opportunity to take part in the first election of the “Arab Spring” that was expected to hand the biggest share of power to an Islamist party.

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Sunday’s vote is for an assembly that will draft a new constitution to replace the one Ben Ali manipulated to entrench his power. It will also appoint an interim government and set elections for a new president and parliament.

Islamist leader Ghannouchi, who spent 22 years in exile in Britain, has associated his party with the moderate Islamism of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. He has said he will not try to impose Muslim values on society.

But the party’s rise is worrying Tunisia’s secularists who believe their country’s liberal, modernist traditions are now under threat.

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fundamentalist Salafist Islamists have attacked a cinema and a TV station in recent months over artistic material deemed blasphemous. Ennahda says they have nothing to do with them, but liberals do not believe them.

Observers says Ennahda’s long-term intentions are not clear. Its election campaign has avoided offering policy details that mark it out as much different from its rivals.

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“Tunisian voters stood in long queues on Sunday, seizing the opportunity to take part in the first election of the “Arab Spring” that was expected to hand the biggest share of power to an Islamist party. “

These fools vote for their own oppression.

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One man, one vote, one time.

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Obama & Hillary Clinton turn another North African/Middle East country over to Islam extremists. Gosh, just when will Americans wake-up??? Some Arab Spring!!!

[ken21]

one vote,

unlike many areas of the u.s. where the democrats

allow multiple votes per person.

[DJ MacWoW]

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