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TUNISIA: Presidential Race

TUNISIA: Presidential Race A run‐off poll will be held in December between the two leading first round candidates. Campaigning for Tunisia's presidential election kicked off on November 1st, just a week after Nidaa Tounes won the legislative vote. Twenty‐seven candidates were in the running for the November 23rd election, including President Moncef Marzouki , former premier Beji Caid Essebsi , National Constituent Assembly chief Mustapha Ben Jaafar , and former Ben Ali regime ministers Kamel Morjane and Mondher Zenaidi. Also vying for the post were magistrate Kalthoum Kannou and former central bank governor Mustapha Kamel Ennabli . ( Magharebia.com 3/11) Meanwhile, in the elections for the 217 seats in the national assembly, the final results were announced by the independent election body, ISIE, on October 30th as follows: Nidaa Tounes: 85 seats Ennahda: 69 seats Free Patriotic Union: 16 seats Popular Front: 15 seats Afek Tounes: 8 seats Others: 24 seats Total: 217 Turnout: 69% ( www.isie.tn/ 30/10) Neither the secular Nidaa Tounes, nor its Islamist rival Ennahda had been expected to win an outright majority, so political horse‐trading had already begun ahead of the announcement of the results. Ennahda, dominant in Tunisian politics since the 2011 revolution, won praise for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Wiley
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© 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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10.1111/j.1467-825X.2014.05998.x
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A run‐off poll will be held in December between the two leading first round candidates. Campaigning for Tunisia's presidential election kicked off on November 1st, just a week after Nidaa Tounes won the legislative vote. Twenty‐seven candidates were in the running for the November 23rd election, including President Moncef Marzouki , former premier Beji Caid Essebsi , National Constituent Assembly chief Mustapha Ben Jaafar , and former Ben Ali regime ministers Kamel Morjane and Mondher Zenaidi. Also vying for the post were magistrate Kalthoum Kannou and former central bank governor Mustapha Kamel Ennabli . ( Magharebia.com 3/11) Meanwhile, in the elections for the 217 seats in the national assembly, the final results were announced by the independent election body, ISIE, on October 30th as follows: Nidaa Tounes: 85 seats Ennahda: 69 seats Free Patriotic Union: 16 seats Popular Front: 15 seats Afek Tounes: 8 seats Others: 24 seats Total: 217 Turnout: 69% ( www.isie.tn/ 30/10) Neither the secular Nidaa Tounes, nor its Islamist rival Ennahda had been expected to win an outright majority, so political horse‐trading had already begun ahead of the announcement of the results. Ennahda, dominant in Tunisian politics since the 2011 revolution, won praise for

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series – Wiley

Published: Jan 1, 2014

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