Tunisia’s Islamist party Ennahda says it will accept the results of the elections this weekend.
|||Tunis - Tunisia’s Islamist party Ennahda will accept the results of elections on Sunday to a constituent assembly and is in talks with other parties on creating a post-election alliance including a coalition government, its leader said on Thursday.
“We will accept the results of elections whatever they may be. We will congratulate the winner and we hope they would congratulate us if we won,” Rached Ghannouchi told Reuters in a telephone interview.
“Our choice is a government of national unity because the country needs to continue on the path of consensus... Ennahda is in talks with the (major) parties to create alliances in the constituent assembly.”
The constituent assembly will write a new constitution before new parliamentary and parliamentary elections, and is also expected to form a new interim government in Tunisia.
The election, set to be Tunisia's first ever free vote, follows an uprising that ousted ruler of 23 years Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali earlier this year.
The Ennahda party, banned under Ben Ali, is expected to come out on top in Sunday's vote, but faces competition from several secular parties which also suffered in the former police state.
Ennahda has been keen to allay the fears of secular parties and Tunisia's Western allies over the future of a country that was a pioneer among Arab and Muslim nations in the sphere of women's rights and tried to keep religion out of public life.
Ghannouchi warned earlier this week of attempts to rig the vote to keep Ennahda down, saying the party would back a new street protest movement if that happened.
“There are some forces who are against the revolution that want to hinder the electoral process,” he told reporters. - Reuters
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/ennahda-will-accept-results-in-tunisia-1.1161671
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