TUNIS – Tunisia has installed as its new president a former dissident who was imprisoned and then exiled for opposing former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Moncef Marzouki (66) is respected by many Tunisians for his implacable opposition to the autocratic Ben Ali.
As president, he will be a secularist counterweight to the moderate Islamist party which is now Tunisia’s dominant political force.