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Tunisia's president has been re-elected for a fifth, five-year term with 89.62 percent of the vote, the Interior Ministry announced Monday. It was the lowest score won by President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali since he took power in a bloodless coup in 1987. Ben Ali was last re-elected in 2004 with more than 94 percent of votes — a drop from his previous victories, which fluctuated between 99.2 and 99.7 percent.
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Ben Ali's Constitutional and Democratic Rally, or RCD, which has been continuously in power since Tunisia's independence from France in 1956, won 161 seats. A sprinkling of small opposition and independent parties shared the remaining 53 seats.
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even Ben Ali's opponents acknowledge the results he has achieved in this small country that lacks any significant natural resources. Tunisia is expecting 3 percent growth in gross domestic product this year despite the global recession. The country's poverty rate has dropped below 4 percent and it is a regional model in terms of literacy, social welfare and the role women play in society. Rights groups however deplore the country's overbearing police presence and general absence of any real freedom of expression.
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