
Tunisia's leading secular party Nidaa Tounes has won 85 seats in the new 217-member parliament after Sunday's election, while Islamist party Ennahda secured 69 seats, according to results released by electoral authorities on Thursday.
Tunisians voted on Sunday in a parliamentary elections that was one of the last steps in the North African country's transition to democracy after the 2011 uprising against Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
Ennahda, the first Islamist movement to secure power after the "Arab Spring" revolts, conceded defeat in the election that was only the second free vote since Ben Ali's autocratic rule ended.
According to (Al Jazeera), talks between Nidaa Tounes and other parties for formation of a coalition government have already begun.
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