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No matter what the results, Tunisia's landmark election was a monumental achievement in democracy that will be a tough act to follow in elections next month in Egypt and Morocco — and later, in Libya.
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While the National Democratic Institute (NDI) recorded some challenges with voter registration and the tabulation of results, observers are generally impressed with the legitimacy and fairness of the elections. Ninety percent of 4.1 million registered voters cast ballots on Sunday, a high turnout by global standards.
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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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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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The Majalla
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10/28/2011
Marwan Muasher, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment and an NDI electoral observer during Tunisia's recent election, speaks to reporter Jacqueline Shoen about the election results, saying the challenge for Tunisia is to write a constitution that allows for political party pluralism and diversity. Muasher also reflects on what these elections mean for other regions of the Arab Spring where some of the first elections since their revolutions will occur in the coming months.
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The Seattle Times
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10/28/2011
Philip N. Howard, an NDI election observer during Tunisia's recent elections, writes that the big story to take away from the first elections of the Arab Spring is that the election process was the biggest victory. Howard writes that, thanks to the use of digital media and other technology, there was a real effort to draw voters into the election process and to enfranchise them.
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The Daily Beast
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10/26/2011
Former Rep. Jane Harman, a member of NDI's election observation delegation to Tunisia, write in The Daily Beast about Sunday's elections in Tunisia and it's implication around the Arab world, including challenges and women's political participation.
"Today, in Tunisia, democracy wins. Its new leaders are mindful of the opportunity and responsibility to their own people and the region. They can be hailed as the future, or they can blow it."
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The Washington Post
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10/24/2011
The Washington Post's editorial board writes that Sunday's elections in Tunisia were "one of the best in the history of the Arab Middle East." The country's leading Islamist party, the Ennahdha party, claimed victory, and the board writes that this could set the standard for upcoming elections is other part of the Middle East.
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National Democratic Institute
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National Democratic Institute
Published Date:
10/24/2011
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Statement
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Arabic, English, French
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