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[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/tunisians-vote-secular-party-is-quick-to-claim-victory/2014/10/26/a223e3f4-5d46-11e4-8b9e-2ccdac31a031_story.html[/url]
[quote]Tunisians voted Sunday for their first five-year parliament since they overthrew their dictator in the 2011 revolution that kicked off the Arab Spring, and the main secular party declared an early victory over the once-dominant Islamists.
Although official results will not be ready before Wednesday, Nida Tunis (Tunisia's Call) said pollsters and its own research showed that it came in first place. But the powerful Islamist Ennahda party cautioned against jumping to conclusions.
The election commission put the turnout at 60 percent of the 5.2 million registered voters.
Tunisia is widely seen as the country with the best chance for democracy in the Arab world, but the past 31 / 2 years have been marked by political turmoil, terrorist attacks and economic woes.
Beji Caid Essebsi, the 87-year-old leader of Nida Tunis, said soon after polls closed that "there are positive signs we may be first."
His prediction was backed up by exit polls conducted by the private, Tunisia-based Sigma Conseil institute, which gave his party 37 percent of the 217-seat body and said Ennahda got 26 percent.
The Islamist party, which took nearly half of the seats in the 2011 election and ran the country for two years, said it would not engage in "speculation and premature announcements."[/quote]
Those damned barbaric Musli- wait what?
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