TUNIS – Tunisian voters on Saturday weighed their choices on the eve of the Arab Spring’s historic first elections nine months after the surprise toppling of strongman Zine el Abidine Ben Ali that started it all. Campaigning ended at midnight for the vote the previously banned Islamist Ennahda party is tipped to win, with the ISIE independent polling commission reminding candidates and journalists that Saturday would be an “election silence day”. “Any overstepping or breach … amounts to an electoral crime punishable by law,” it warned in a statement. On…
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