Tunisia Elections

Tunisia's established Islamist-inspired party Ennahdha came out on top in legislative polls, winning 52 of the 217 seats, preliminary results showed Wednesday.

Tunisians headed to the polls Sunday for the third round of legislative elections since the country's 2011 revolution, weeks after a presidential vote swept aside the post-Arab Spring political establishment.

Tunisia's largest political party has chosen an official of the old regime and a former interior minister as its candidate for prime minister and tasked him with forming a coalition to run the country.

Anti-Islamist Beji Caid Essebsi, 88, was sworn-in today as Tunisia's first freely elected President vowing to work for national reconciliation, four years after an uprising that sparked the Arab Spring.

Newly elected Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi will be sworn in Wednesday at a ceremony in the parliament, which is dominated by his anti-Islamist Nidaa Tounes party, officials said.

Veteran politician Beji Caid Essebsi won Tunisia's first free Presidential election, beating rival and incumbent Moncef Marzouki with 55.68 per cent of the vote against 44.32 per cent, official results showed today.

Tunisian presidential candidate Beji Caid Essebsi claimed victory in Today's run-off election, which is seen as the final step to full democracy nearly four years after an uprising ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.

Tunisians go to the polls today to freely elect their president for the first time in the country's history, rounding off an at times bumpy four-year transition from dictatorship.

Tunisian secularist leader Beji Caid Essebsi beat incumbent President Moncef Marzouki in the first round of landmark presidential elections, but the two men will have to meet again in a December run-off, early results showed on Tuesday.

Tunisia's first Presidential election since a 2011 revolution was credible and transparent, the Head of the EU Observer Mission said on Tuesday.

A factfile on Tunisia, which holds its first multi-candidate presidential election today in the final stage of a post-revolution transition.

Tunisians vote today in their first presidential election since the 2011 revolution that sparked the Arab Spring, a ballot set to round off an often fraught transition to democracy.

Four Tunisian soldiers were killed and 11 others were wounded on Wednesday in an attack by suspected Islamist militants on a bus carrying soldiers in Kef near the Algerian border, the Defence Ministry said.

Campaigning opened on Saturday for a presidential election in Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, with secularist Beji Caid Essebsi seen as the frontrunner after his party won milestone parliamentary polls.

Tunisians elected a new parliament on Sunday bringing full democracy within their reach almost four years after an uprising cast out autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali and inspired the "Arab Spring" revolts.

Tunisia's established Islamist-inspired party Ennahdha came out on top in legislative polls, winning 52 of the 217 seats, preliminary results showed Wednesday.

Tunisians headed to the polls Sunday for the third round of legislative elections since the country's 2011 revolution, weeks after a presidential vote swept aside the post-Arab Spring political establishment.

Tunisia's largest political party has chosen an official of the old regime and a former interior minister as its candidate for prime minister and tasked him with forming a coalition to run the country.

Anti-Islamist Beji Caid Essebsi, 88, was sworn-in today as Tunisia's first freely elected President vowing to work for national reconciliation, four years after an uprising that sparked the Arab Spring.

Newly elected Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi will be sworn in Wednesday at a ceremony in the parliament, which is dominated by his anti-Islamist Nidaa Tounes party, officials said.

Veteran politician Beji Caid Essebsi won Tunisia's first free Presidential election, beating rival and incumbent Moncef Marzouki with 55.68 per cent of the vote against 44.32 per cent, official results showed today.

Tunisian presidential candidate Beji Caid Essebsi claimed victory in Today's run-off election, which is seen as the final step to full democracy nearly four years after an uprising ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.

Tunisians go to the polls today to freely elect their president for the first time in the country's history, rounding off an at times bumpy four-year transition from dictatorship.

Tunisian secularist leader Beji Caid Essebsi beat incumbent President Moncef Marzouki in the first round of landmark presidential elections, but the two men will have to meet again in a December run-off, early results showed on Tuesday.

Tunisia's first Presidential election since a 2011 revolution was credible and transparent, the Head of the EU Observer Mission said on Tuesday.

A factfile on Tunisia, which holds its first multi-candidate presidential election today in the final stage of a post-revolution transition.

Tunisians vote today in their first presidential election since the 2011 revolution that sparked the Arab Spring, a ballot set to round off an often fraught transition to democracy.

Four Tunisian soldiers were killed and 11 others were wounded on Wednesday in an attack by suspected Islamist militants on a bus carrying soldiers in Kef near the Algerian border, the Defence Ministry said.

Campaigning opened on Saturday for a presidential election in Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, with secularist Beji Caid Essebsi seen as the frontrunner after his party won milestone parliamentary polls.

Tunisians elected a new parliament on Sunday bringing full democracy within their reach almost four years after an uprising cast out autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali and inspired the "Arab Spring" revolts.