TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia completed on Monday the registration of candidates for next month's elections to choose the people who would write a constitution for the country after decades of one party rule.
The world is watching closely to see whether this North African nation of 10 million, which deposed its long ruling leader in January and sparked uprisings in the region known as the Arab Spring, can successfully produce a functioning democracy.
Tunisians will go to the polls Oct. 23 to choose 218 members of an assembly that will write the country's new constitution. Nearly 10,000 candidates from more than 100 parties have been approved to run.
Since President Zine …
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