Moderate Islam sweeps elections in Tunisia

The moderate Islamist party wins elections Ennahda.

Surprisingly large share of the 'festival of democracy' in Tunisia.

Theirs were the first elections of the 'Arab Spring' 

The moderate Islamist party Ennahda Movement won the Constituent Assembly elections held on Sunday in Tunis , according to early unofficial figures provided by the parties consulted.

While Superior Independent Elections (Isie) reported that final results will be announced and officials on Tuesday , the main contesting parties have obtained information with data from their auditors in the various constituencies.

We continue with the idea of creating a national unity government Ennahda According to sources, "the votes far exceeded that predicted by the polls, so that instead of 20% predicted, would have reached more than 40% favorable vote in a first count, a percentage that can be increased as they progress counts "and pointed out that in some polling stations exceeded 50%.

"However, we continue with the idea of creating a government of national unity ", the sources added.

For its part, Abdelhamid Eslassi, director of the election campaign of An Nahda, announced at a press conference that his training was "more than 50% of the votes of Tunisians living abroad", giving them 10 of the 18 seats allocated to them on the Assembly.

The general secretary of the centrist Democratic Progressive Party (PDP), Maya Zribi, acknowledged that voters had opted to vote for the Islamists. "We bow to the decision of the people. With the data we find a trend in the vote for Islamist lists, and limited our results," he said.

Progressive and modern country

Explicitly admitting the electoral defeat of PDP, Zribi added that his party "will continue working for a progressive and modern country , but remains to be seen how to counter the strong influence gained by the Islamists, on the basis that they respect the results of the election. "

The whole progressive family can not muster a majority Ridha Ben Fadel, head of the coalition campaign leftist secular parties , the Democratic Pole Modernist (PDM), stated that "the whole family can not meet a progressive majority in the new Constituent Assembly, as follows from the first round of consultations. "

During a meeting with his supporters at a hotel in the capital, Ben Fadel said that "while the Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties (or Takaktoul, belonging to the Socialist International) is obtained very good results may not allow either create a Most left through covenants. "

He added that "neither party can count on the Congress for the Republic (CPR) "because in his own eyes" is very close to E nnahda. "