Analysts Optimistic About Success of Tunisian Democracy

With a new secular alliance emerging victorious in Tunisia's recent legislative elections, winning 85 of the 217 seats in parliament, analysts say Tunisia’s democracy is on the right path. “It is another big step toward a democratic transition in Tunisia that stands in contrast to the upheavals elsewhere since the birth of Arab Spring,” said Amy Hawthorne, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Hariri Center for the Middle East. The alliance Nidaa Tounes - whose name means...

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