Ennahda Movement

Official statements from around the region on the results of Turkey's Nov. 1 parliamentary election, mostly those congratulating the Justice and Development Party (AKP) on its electoral victory, have continued.

“Your luck is that your Islamists are not successful economically,” a Turkish friend of mine told a Tunisian friend.

Tunisia's main secular party Nidaa Tounes won 85 seats in the new 217-member parliament in Sunday's election, while the Islamist party Ennahda secured 69 seats, according to results released by electoral authorities on Oct. 30.
   

Tunisia's main secular opposition party is claiming a big victory in the country's historic election over the once dominant Islamists.