Tunisian leader says Islamists won’t undo secular system

Islamists are poised to do well in elections this month in Tunisia, the first of the Arab Spring countries to choose new representatives. But the nation's prime minister has a message for the West: Don't worry.

"All Islamist parties are not the same," Beji Caid Essebsi said in an interview Wednesday.

Opinion polls indicate that an Islamist party, Ennahdha, could get the most votes in the Oct. 23 balloting, in which voters will choose an assembly to rewrite Tunisia's constitution.

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Patricia Sullivan 06 Oct, 2011

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