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Clashes erupt inTunisia as candidate declares win

 

Tunisian police fired teargas in a southern city to disperse hundreds of youths who burned tyres and blocked streets to demonstrate against an official from the old guard who declared he had won Sunday’s presidential vote, residents said.

Yesterday’s protests in Hamma erupted after veteran politician Beji Caid Essebsi declared victory in Sunday’s run-off, seen as the last step in Tunisia’s shift to full democracy four years after an uprising ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.

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