'Voting is now understood as a duty': Tunis Votes

Nearly 75 percent of eligible Tunisians registered to vote in Sunday's elections (MEE/Emir Sfaxi)

Voters in Tunis' upscale Lac neighbourhood (MEE/Emir Sfaxi)

Nationwide voter turnout hovered above 50 percent (MEE/Emir Sfaxi)

Voters in Bahr al-Azraq, a poverty-stricken district in Tunis (MEE/Emir Sfaxi)

'I’m used to poverty, but I want a better future for my daughters. I don’t know who to vote for… just not Ennahda,' said a voter in Tunis' Bahr al-Azraq neighbourhood (MEE/Emir Sfaxi)

'Life keeps getting more expensive, but work opportunities are harder to find,' said another voter in Bahr al-Azraq (MEE/Emir Sfaxi)

'People have gotten even poorer in this area since the revolution,' said a mother of three in Bahr al-Azraq (MEE/Emir Sfaxi)

An estimated 5.2 million Tunisians signed up to vote (MEE/Emir Sfaxi)

80,000 Tunisian troops and police were deployed on Sunday in case of any attacks (MEE/Emir Sfaxi)

'We feel that we have to vote to save the country,' said a leader of the Young Independent Democrats of Tunisia (MEE/Emir Sfaxi)

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