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Tunisians have lined up at polling stations to vote in their North African country’s first free and open presidential election.
Sunday’s vote marks the long awaited completion of a rocky transition to democracy after Tunisians electrified the region by overthrowing dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, kicking off the Arab Spring pro-democracy uprisings.
The front runner among the nearly two dozen presidential candidates is 87-year-old Beji Caid Essebsi, a veteran politician from the previous regime who has gained people support with talk of a return to stability after years of economic and political turmoil.
If no candidate gains an outright majority, the vote will go to a run off held in one month.
Alone among the countries of the Arab Spring, Tunisia’s transition has remained on track.
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