TEHERAN: TUNISIA ELECTION RESULTS PROVE ISLAMIC NATURE OF THE REVOLUTION
‘Election results prove Islamic nature of Tunisian revolution’
TEHRAN– Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani told an open session of parliament on Tuesday that the result of Tunisia’s general election proves the fact that the revolution that occurred in the country was Islamic in nature.
Tunisians went to the polls on Sunday to elect a 217-member Constituent Assembly from among more than 11,000 candidates. The elected members of the assembly will then appoint a new interim government and draft a new constitution.
Tunisia’s main moderate Islamic party Ennahda claimed Monday to have captured about 40 percent of the vote in the country’s first free polls since 1956, as the cradle of the Arab Spring basked in praise for its democratic revolution.
Larijani said the Tunisian people also proved the popular nature of their revolution as 90 percent of the eligible voters turned out in the election.
Tunisia was the standard-bearer of the recent Islamic uprisings against tyrant rulers and the first country that rose against despotism in the region, Larijani stated.
He went on to say that the country again was the first one which established its new political structure and successfully conducted general election.
He also emphasized that from the very beginning of the recent uprisings in the region the Supreme Leader kept speaking about the Islamic awakening in the current era.
The result of elections proved the fact that the Tunisian revolution stemmed from the Islamic awakening and made the West and some short-sighted analysts wake up to the real world, he added.
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