Latest News Wires Exit polls predict win for ex-regime official in Tunisia

Pollsters say Beji Caid Essebsi, who leads a broad anti-Islamist party, has won the nation's first free presidential election.

By , Associated Press

Tunisian polling firms have declared Beji Caid Essebsi, an 88-year-old official from previous regimes, as the winner of Sunday's presidential runoff, cementing his dominance over a country where his party already controls Parliament.