Tunisia Counts Votes in Historic Poll
Tunisia vote (BBC Video)
Tunisian election officials are counting votes after Sunday’s election, the first free poll of the Arab Spring.
More than 90 percent of registered voters turned out to cast their ballots, officials say.
Tunisians are electing a 217-seat assembly that will draft a constitution and appoint an interim president, who will choose the new government.
Anchor Lisa Mullins talks to blogger Issandr A Amrani, in Tunis, about the result of the election in Tunisia where an Islamist party is in the lead.
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