TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisians should vote without fear of rigging or any violence in the first free election after an uprising earlier this year, the prime minister said on Thursday.
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. It follows an uprising that ousted ruler of 23 years Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali earlier this year.
“No one can doubt the elections, they will be transparent and clean. Rigging will not be possible. The ballot boxes will be open to everyone,” Beji Caid Sebsi said in a speech shown on national television.
“There are people who refuse the elections in the first place, considering them apostasy. But the state will not allow violence. The process will be exemplary and we ask people to vote without fear and we reassure them.”
His comments referred to concerns that Ben Ali loyalists or Islamist fundamentalists who reject elections in principle could disrupt the vote on Sunday.
Sebsi was also responding to comments from Rached Ghannouchi, leader of the Islamist Ennahda party, warning of attempts to rig the vote to keep Ennahda down. Ghannouchi said the party, which is widely expected to
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