Tunisians are going to the polls on Sunday to vote for a new parliament for the first time since dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown four years ago.<br /><br />The 2011 revolution inspired similar popular uprisings which became known as the Arab Spring.<br /><br />There are as many as 13,000 candidates from about 100 different parties competing for the 217 parliamentary seats.<br /><br />The two main parties are moderate Islamist Ennahda and a new secular party called Nidaa Tounis.<br /><br />Around 5 million Tunisians are entitled to vote.<br /><br />Militants have threatened to disrupt the voting and security forces have been cracking down hard on suspected extremists in the run up to the election.<br /><br />On Friday security forces killed six people, including five women, after a standoff with an Islamist militant group on the outskirts of Tunis<br /><br />Presidential elections will be held in November.
