TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisians began voting on Sunday in a presidential run-off election that completes the country's last steps to full democracy nearly fours years after an uprising that toppled autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. With a new progressive constitution and a full parliament elected in October, Tunisia is hailed as an example of democratic change for a region still struggling with the aftermath of the 2011 Arab Spring revolts.
Sunday's ballot has emerged as a race between a former Ben Ali official recasting himself as a technocrat statesman and the incumbent who claims to defend the legacy of the 2011 revolution that forced Ben Ali into exile.
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