Essebsi wins Tunisian poll
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ANTI-ISLAMIST politician Beji Caid Essebsi won Tunisia’s presidential election with 55.68 percent of the vote, beating incumbent Moncef Marzouki, the electoral commission said yesterday.
Essebsi, an 88-year-old veteran of previous governments, becomes the first president freely elected by Tunisians since independence from France in 1956.
A former prime minister, he clinched 1.7 million votes cast against Marzouki’s more than 1.3 million in Sunday’s runoff, electoral commission chief Chafik Sarsar told a news conference.
Turnout in the second round was 60.1 percent, he added.
The first round on November 23 saw Essebsi take 39 percent, 6 percentage points ahead of 69-year-old former rights activist Marzouki, who was installed by parliament two months after December 2011 polls.
The campaign was marked by mudslinging, with Essebsi refusing to debate with Marzouki, calling his opponent an “extremist.”
Essebsi insists that Marzouki represents Islamists, charging that they had “ruined” the country since the 2011 revolution which toppled veteran ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and sparked the Arab Spring.
Marzouki in turn accused Essebsi, a senior official under previous regimes, of wanting to restore the old guard deposed in the revolution.
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