Tunisia’s Ennahda party has conceded defeat by the secular Nidaa Tounes party in the country’s second election since the overthrow of dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Official results are yet to be announced, however Ennahda party officials congratulated the winners.
“We have accepted this result and congratulate the winner,” Ennahda’s Lotfi Zitoun, told Reuters.
Ennahda became the first Islamist party to win elections in the Arab spring and ruled for two years in the newly-democratic Tunisia.
Zitoun said the party called for a unity government, including Ennahda, in the interest of the country.
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