Caliphate by vote in our lifetime?
BBC:
Voting has begun in Tunisia in the first free election of the Arab Spring, nine months after the fall of former President Zinedine el Abidine Ben Ali.
Voters will elect a 217-seat assembly that will draft a new constitution and appoint an interim government.
Islamist party Ennahda is expected to win the most votes, though it is not clear if it will gain a majority.
Reuters:
UPDATE 5-Huge turnout in Tunisia’s Arab Spring election
Sun Oct 23, 2011 1:25pm GMT Print | Single Page* Tunisians vote after uprising removed Ben Ali
* Eyes of region on first post-Arab Spring election
* Islamists expected to win but coalitions expected
* Secularists heckle Islamist leader at polling station (Updates with more quotes)
By Tarek Amara and Christian Lowe
TUNIS, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Tunisian voters poured into polling stations to vote on Sunday in their country’s first free election, 10 months after a vegetable seller set fire to himself in an act of protest that started the Arab Spring uprisings.
The leader of an Islamist party predicted to win the biggest share of the vote was heckled outside a polling station by people shouting “terrorist” — highlighting tensions between Islamists and secularists that are also being felt in other countries touched by the Arab Spring.
Anyone doubt this will be the path in Egypt? Yemen? Iraq? Syria? Libya?
This is what the nascence of Huntington looks like.
A vote for what the people REALLY WANT.
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