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A Bloodless Transition: Tunisia’s Legislative Elections

A Bloodless Transition: Tunisia’s Legislative Elections
A Bloodless Transition: Tunisia’s Legislative Elections

The Tunisian parliamentary election that took place on October 26 has been widely hailed as a rare and heartening success story. It was a moment of bloodless democratic transition in a broader Middle East that appears to be crumbling daily into anarchy, from the lawless militia zone of Libya to the killing grounds of Syria and Iraq. The election went off peacefully, without accusations of fraud, and even the principal losing party—the Tunisian Islamist group known as Ennahda—held a celebration to honor the event as a “victory for all Tunisians.”

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Robert Worth

Robert Worth

Former Public Policy Fellow;
Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine; former Beirut Bureau Chief, The New York Times
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