The swing away from Islamists continued in legislative and presidential elections, both held in late 2014. In October the secular Nida Tounes party, led by Sebsi, won 85 seats of the 217 in Tunisia’s new legislative assembly, the Assembly of the Representatives of the People, while Ennahda won 69. In December Sebsi himself was elected president, winning more that 55 percent of the vote in a runoff against the incumbent interim president, Marzouki. With no party in a position to form a parliamentary majority, Nida Tounes and Ennahda agreed to form a unity government. The two parties worked together to
After the Great War, Arab societies, like many others, for the first time came to know politics as a modern mass phenomenon in which modern communication technologies are used for mass political mobilization. For the first time, intellectuals,
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