Essebsi elected Tunisian president with 55.68% votes

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Essebsi elected Tunisian president with 55.68% votes

Beji Caid Essebsi won Tunisia’s presidential election, beating incumbent Moncef Marzouki with 55.68 percent of the vote

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Published: Mon 22 Dec 2014, 8:31 PM

Last updated: Sat 4 Apr 2015, 5:10 AM

Tunisia

Veteran politician Beji Caid Essebsi won Tunisia’s first free presidential election, beating rival and incumbent Moncef Marzouki with 55.68 percent of the vote against 44.32 percent, official results showed on Monday.

The ballot marked the final step in Tunisia’s transition to democracy after an uprising that ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 and inspired the Arab Spring revolts across North Africa and the Middle East.

Essebsi, a former official in Ben Ali’s one-party administration, recast himself as a technocrat and his secular Call for Tunisia party profited from the backlash against the country’s first post-revolt Islamist government, which many voters blamed for turmoil after 2011.


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