Moderate Islamic Party Wins Tunisian Election

Election officials in Tunisia yesterday confirmed that the moderate Islamist Ennahda party won this week's Parliamentary elections.  According to Reuters, Ennahda captured 90 seats in the 217-seat assembly which will draft a new constitution.  The next largest party-- the secularist Congress for the Republic-- obtained only 30 seats. Ennahada attempted to assure secularists and investors by saying that it would not impose Islamic banking, nor would it stp tourists from wearing bikinis on Tunisian beaches.