Tunisian polling stations have opened for elections seen as a test of the country’s transition to democracy after the ouster of former dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
Voting opened at 7 a.m. (06:00 GMT) on Sunday to elect a five-year legislative assembly and will close at 6:00 p.m. More than 4,500 polling booths have been set up, with security forces deploying heavily to avert possible attacks, Aljazeerah reported.
The oldest Tunisian to have cast a vote is a woman aged 114-year-old. (image above)
She was born in 1900 and witnessed both WW I and WW II.
Concerning the election results, they are expected to follow shortly after.
Sunday’s general election, which will see the election of the 217-member legislature, is the first under the country’s new constitution and the second since the 2011 uprising that overthrew the regime of the former dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.
More than 100 political parties are running and over 5.2 million people are eligible to vote.
