Tunisians hope constitution's slow birth will help avoid neighbours' mistakes

<div id="article-body-blocks"> <p>After decades of dictatorship and two years of arguments and compromises, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/tunisia" title="More from the Guardian on Tunisia">Tunisia</a> finally has a new constitution laying the foundations for a new democracy.</p><p>The document, which passed late on Sunday by 200 votes out of 216, is groundbreaking as one of the most progressive constitutions in the Arab world – and for the fact that it got written at all.</p>
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