Counting the votes in Tunisia.<br/> A day after the country's historic vote an Islamist party appears to be in the lead, although there are no official results yet.<br/> Nevertheless the moderate Islamist party Ennahda is claiming victory<br/> HEAD OF ENNAHDA ELECTION CAMPAIGN, ABD ELHAMID JLOZI, SAYING:<br/> SOUNDBITE: Head of Ennahda election campaign, Abd Elhamid Jlozi, saying (Arabic):<br/> "The first confirmed results show that Ennahda has obtained first place, nationally and across voting centers."<br/> Even if its victory is confirmed when official results from the vote -- the first democratic election in Tunisia's history -- are released, Ennahda will still have to share power with other parties.<br/> Not everyone welcomes the news.<br/> Secularists are taking to the streets in protest<br/> SOUNDBITE: Protester, saying (French):<br/> "Look, the Tunisian people have just one choice to make: that's to cut out religion from politics. The Tunisian people should cut out religion from politics. Or next we will end up living in a Tunisia that's a religious state. We refuse to do that."<br/> Sunday's vote was for an assembly which will sit for one year to draft a new constitution. It will also appoint a new interim president and government to run the country until fresh elections late next year or early in 2013.<br/> Deborah Lutterbeck Reuters
