A self-styled, secular, modernist party called Nidaa Tounes won against the Islamist Ennahda party in the Tunisian election this week. For many, the subsequent headline – “Secularist party wins ...

TUNIS – “We have members in the Nidaa Tounes party who are hard leftists, many who are moderate liberals and others who used to be Islamists and decided that our programme is best for Tunisia,” said ...

TUNIS – With preliminary results indicating a win for Nidaa Tounes and a concession phone call late Monday from Ennahda’s Rashid Ghannouchi to Nidaa’s leader Beji Caid Essebsi, the obvious question is ...

WITH elections due at the end of the year, old-style political dealmaking and the country’s long-established elites from such places as Bizerte, Sousse and Sfax, as well as Tunis, are making a ...

Official election results confirm that a new secular alliance has emerged the victor in Tunisia's legislative elections, winning 85 of the 217 seats in parliament and getting the mandate to form the ...

Tensions across the religious-secular fault lines in the country could not be reconciled, and freely elected leaders failed to deliver on the 2011 uprising’s cry for bread, freedom and dignity. By ...

The secular Nidaa Tounes party came top in Tunisia's weekend legislative polls defeating Islamist party Ennahda, according to official provisional results released early Thursday. Nidaa Tounes won 85 ...

A year ago, Nidaa Tounes topped the polls, now Tunisia's strongest party is breaking apart. The government coalition still holds, but the balance of power has changed. The various wings of Tunisia's ...

Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda party has become the largest group in parliament after 22 lawmakers who quit the secular Nidaa Tounes party submitted a request Tuesday to form a new bloc. Parliament vice ...