Enthusiasm builds for Tunisia's 1st free elections

The Miami Herald Saturday 22nd October, 2011

TUNIS, Tunisia -- Tunis was filled with rival rallies throbbing with music as the political parties marked the end of three weeks of campaigning for the country's first truly free and multiparty elections since its independence from France in 1956.Tunisians on Sunday will elect an assembly that will appoint a new government and then write the coun...

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