The two front runners in Tunisia's presidential election are
heading for a run-off vote in December, after failing to get an overall
majority in first round results announced
World Bulletin/News Desk
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.
Essebsi, from the Nidaa Tounes party, got 39.46 percent in
Sunday's poll, short of the needed overall majority but ahead of Marzouki, who
got 33.4 percent, according to the figures.
The vote for Tunisia's first directly-elected president
marks the final step in the North African state's transition to full democracy
following a 2011 revolution that ousted long-time ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben
Ali.
Essebsi is a former Ben Ali official and Marzouki had
depicted the race as a chance for voters to reject the old guard.
More than three years since overthrowing Ben Ali's one-party
rule, Tunisia adopted a new constitution, and rival parties have largely
avoided the turmoil that has plagued other Arab states swept by popular
revolts.
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