Huge Turnout in Tunisia's First Democratic Polls | Oct. 23, 2011

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Ten months after its revolution triggered a wider popular revolt, Tunisia is the first so-called "Arab Spring" country to hold democratic elections. Tunisia's 4.4-million registered voters are choosing 217 members of the new Constituent Assembly to craft a new Constitution and political system for the North African country emerging from decades of dictatorship...

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Enthusiasm Builds for Tunisia's 1st Free Elections | Oct. 22, 2011

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Tunis was filled with rival rallies throbbing with music as the political parties marked the end of three weeks of campaigning for the country's first truly free and multiparty elections since its independence from France in 1956...

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