Tunisia Islamists say won nearly half assembly seats

Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda party, citing its own unofficial figures, said on Tuesday an election at the weekend gave it more than 40 percent of the seats in the country's new constitutional assembly.

Campaign manager Abdelhamid Jlazzi, announcing the figures at party headquarters, said: "We realise the meaning of this ... Ennahda is now for the Tunisian people, not just its supporters." (Reuters)