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Credit: Reuters/Louafi Larbi By Tarek Amara and Christian Lowe TUNIS | Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:44am EDT TUNIS (Reuters) - Moderate Islamists said on Monday their party appeared to be ahead in Tunisia's first free election since an uprising earlier this year that set off the Arab Spring and reshaped the region's political landscape. Most forecasts point to the Ennahda party emerging with the biggest share of the vote, an outcome that worries secularists and could be replicated in other Arab states when they hold their own post-Arab Spring elections. Tunisian radio read out voting figures it obtained from some districts in Beja that showed Ennahda in the lead, with the center-left Congress for the Republic Party also doing well. Ennahda said its own polling suggested the same. Parties are allowed to have representatives present during the counting process. "The results are very good for Ennahda. We don't want to give details but it's clear that Ennahda has enjoyed a level of success that in some cases equals the results of the voting abroad," an Ennahda official said. Ennahda, citing its own, unofficial tally from votes cast by the large Tunisian diaspora before Sunday's election, said indications were it won half the vote abroad. "Ennahda was first in all the foreign polling stations," its campaign manager, Abdelhamid Jlazzi, told a gathering of party workers. "We got more than 50 percent." Turnout in the vote, for an assembly which will sit for one year and draft a new constitution, was more than 90 percent -- a mark of Tunisians' determination to exercise their new democratic rights after decades of repression. State radio reported that incomplete counts in two provincial cities, Sfax and Kef, also had Ennahda in the lead. The CPR was in second place in Sfax and Ettakatol, another socialist group, was runner-up in Kef, the radio said. With an unexpectedly large number of ballot papers to count, election officials said it was likely to be Monday or even later before they have results to announce. U.S. President Barack Obama said Tunisia's revolution in January had "changed the course of history." "Just as so many Tunisian citizens protested peacefully in streets and squares to claim their rights, today they stood in lines and cast their votes to determine their own future," he said in a statement issued by the White House. The suicide of vegetable peddler Mohamed Bouazizi, who set himself on fire in despair over poverty and government harassment, provoked mass protests which ended Ben Ali's 23-year grip on power. This in turn inspired uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain which have re-shaped the political landscape of the Middle East and North Africa. Ennahda's fortunes may have a bearing on Egyptian elections set for next month in which the Muslim Brotherhood, an ideological ally, also hopes to emerge strongest. CONTRADICTIONS The 217-seat assembly Tunisians are electing will, as well as re-writing the constitution, choose a new interim government and set dates for parliamentary and presidential elections. Western diplomats say Ennahda is unlikely to win a majority of seats in the assembly in its own right, forcing it to make alliances with secularist parties and therefore diluting its influence. Ennahda's leader Rachid Ghannouchi, who spent 22 years in exile in Britain, models his party on the moderate Islamist rule of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. He says his party will respect women's rights and not try to enforce any personal morality code on Tunisians. But the prospect of it winning a share of power still makes some people feel uncomfortable in Tunisia. It has secular traditions which go back to its first president after independence from France. He called the hijab, or Islamic head scarf, an "odious rag." When Ghannouchi emerged from the polling station where he cast his vote on Sunday, about a dozen secularists shouted at him: "Degage," French for "Go away," and "You are a terrorist and an assassin! Go back to London!" "I'm not so optimistic about the result of the vote," said Ziyed Tijiani, a 26-year-old architect after he cast his ballot on Sunday. "I think the Islamists could win. It's not want I want. They may try to change the way I live," he said, accompanied by a young woman in jeans and T-shirt. Across the country on Sunday, queues stretching hundreds of meters long formed outside polling stations from early in the morning for an election which could set the template for other states emerging from the Arab Spring. "This is the first time I have voted," said Karima Ben Salem, 45, at a polling station in the Lafayette area of Tunis. "I've asked the boys to make their own lunch. I don't care ... Today I am not on duty. Or rather, I am on duty for my country," she said. An Ennahda victory would be the first such success in the Arab world since Hamas won a 2006 Palestinian vote. Islamists won a 1991 election in Algeria, Tunisia's neighbor, but the army annulled the result, provoking years of conflict. Tunisia has a tiny minority of hardline Islamists, but the policies Ennahda espouses are more in keeping with mainstream Tunisia, where most people take a laid-back view of Islam's strictures on things like drinking alcohol. "This morning I voted for Ennahda and this evening I am going to drink a few beers," said Makram, a young man from the working class Ettadamen neighborhood of Tunis. Yet observers say there is tension inside the party between Ghannouchi's moderate line and more vehement Islamists among the rank and file. A final election rally on Friday illustrated the party's contradictions as Suad Abdel-Rahim, a tall, glamorous female Ennahda candidate who does not wear a veil, addressed the crowd. But many books on sale on the fringes of the rally were by writers who belong to the strict Salafist branch of Islam. They believe women should be segregated from men in public and that elections are un-Islamic. (Additional reporting by Andrew Hammond in Sidi Bouzid and Abdelaziz Boumzar, Mohamed Argoubi and Warda Al-Jawahiry in Tunis; Writing by Christian Lowe) World Tunisia Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. 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