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October 26, 2011

CS Monitor: Can Islamists share power with secularists? Tunisia is about to find out.

by Elizabeth Dickinson
The Christian Science Monitor

With full results of Tunisia's first-ever democratic election expected as soon as tomorrow, two secular parties looked poised to join the Islamist Al Nahda party in an alliance that could guide the country's political transition with a decisive majority.

The alliance of the Islamist party with center-left parties Congrès pour le République (CPR) and Ettekatol would represent approximately 60 percent of the vote, according to individual party estimates.

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