Official results were only due Tuesday but provisional results released by some media outlets appeared to confirm Ennahda’s prediction that it would be the dominant force in Tunisia’s constituent assembly.
The leader of the secular centre-left PDP party, tipped as Ennahda’s main challengers before the vote, conceded defeat.
“The trend is clear. The PDP is badly placed. It is the decision of the Tunisian people. I bow before their choice,” leader Maya Jribi told AFP at her party’s headquarters.
Tunisians turned out en masse Sunday to elect an assembly seen as the custodian of the pro-democracy revolution that brought dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali’s 23-year-old rule to a crushing end nine months ago.
Moderates gain in Swiss vote
Swiss voters backed moderate forces in their general election in which nationalists failed in their effort to break through the 30 per cent barrier. The nationalist Swiss People’s Party was projected to take a mere 25.9 per cent, whereas on the left, the Greens also sustained a surprising setback.