Campaign rallies have ended in Tunisia where voters will cast ballots Sunday in the first elections since the revolution that toppled former president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January.

Members of some of the major political parties pumped music through loudspeakers at rallies in Tunis Friday as volunteers distributed leaflets.

More than 100 parties are competing in Sunday's elections. Voters will choose 217 members of a new constituent assembly that will write a new constitution and form a new interim government.

More than 10,000 candidates are vying for seats in the assembly.

Analysts predict the moderate Islamist Ennahda party will be the front-runner in the polls. The party was severely repressed under Mr. Ben Ali's administration.

On Thursday, interim Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi urged Tunisians to “vote without fear.” He sought to assure voters that the polling would be fair.

Mr. Ben Ali held power for 23 years before fleeing to Saudi Arabia in January following huge anti-government protests that sparked revolts across the Arab world.

A Tunisian court sentenced him, in absentia, to serve time in prison after he was convicted of corruption and abuse of power.