Not much jumped off the page at me from today's paper. After flipping through the pages and reading a few stories, I settled on the article about Tunisia's election and the moderate Islamist party most likely to win. In an article from the Times last week, I read and wrote about political cartoons having an impact on the elections, which is why I chose to go deeper into this one to see the predicted results for the historic elections.
Tunisia is the first nation involved in the Arab Spring elections which makes this an exciting and cautionary time for the other nations. Historically, nations who have had Islamist parties in the lead have led to military coups and confrontation. Since the party leading in Tunisia is a moderate Islamist party the people hope incidents seen in other Arab countries will not take place. There could still be a change before the elections, but whichever party wins, the Tunisian people are anxious to take part in a democratic election and have a constitution written.
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