Sunday 23 November 2014

Tunisians go to the polls to vote a President, first since the revolution


Tunisians went to the polls on Sunday to vote for their first directly elected president since the 2011 revolution that ended the regime of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.

Polling agents carry a box of votes into a military truck to be distributed to the polling stations in Beja November 22, 2014.  REUTERS-Zoubeir Souissi
Ballot boxes delivered to polling stations
 

Nearly 30 candidates are running but a race is emerging between a veteran former Ben Ali official and a rights activist who says the election is a chance to stop the return of old-regime stalwarts

More than three years after the end of Ben Ali's one-party rule, Tunisia has become a model of transition for the region by adopting a new constitution and avoiding the turmoil facing its neighbours.

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