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Rejected poll monitors accuse Tunisia's election authorities of bias
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Election officials in Tunisia doubled down Monday on their decision to deny accreditation to some election observer groups who say the move shows the October presidential contest in the North African country won't be free and fair. The Independent High...
Tunisia's electoral authority approves just 2 candidates to challenge Saied. 1 has been detained
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s electoral authority on Monday definitively approved just two candidates to challenge President Kais Saied in elections next month in the struggling North African country — and one of them was promptly arrested. Businessman candidate Ayachi Zammel...
Tunisia's president reshuffles Cabinet ahead of October election
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's President Kais Saied has sacked several members of his Cabinet this week, replacing his defense and foreign ministers as campaigning kicks off for the country's October presidential election. Three years since Saied rewrote Tunisia's constitution...
Tunisia's president replaces prime minister in the latest shakeup ahead of presidential election
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's president has sacked the country's prime minister and replaced him with another Cabinet member, the latest shakeup in the North African country ahead of the October presidential election. President Kais Saied announced late Wednesday in a brief...
Tunisian opposition figure Moussi is sentenced to prison amid crackdown ahead of October election
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A potential presidential candidate in Tunisia has been sentenced to two years in prison, marking another setback to the country’s fledgling opposition challenging President Kais Saied as he seeks a new term. Abir Moussi, a 49-year-old lawyer and the head of...
Tunisian presidential candidate Lotfi Mraihi barred from contesting elections for life
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian court on Friday sentenced a presidential candidate Lotfi Mraihi to eight months in prison and banned him from contesting elections for life, in the latest move to stifle opponents of President Kais Saied in the upcoming October election which critics call a sham....
Tunisia's opposition says politically motivated arrests and gag orders are chilling election efforts
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Leading opposition parties in Tunisia asserted Wednesday that politically motivated arrests and gag orders are creating impossible conditions for holding democratic elections later this year. Members of the National Salvation Front, a coalition of secular and...
Arrests, summonses of potential presidential candidates in Tunisia continue as election day nears
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — As elections approach in Tunisia, potential candidates are facing arrest or being summoned to appear in court as authorities clamp down on those planning to challenge President Kais Saied. On Friday, a judge in a Tunis court put a potential presidential...
Tunisia sets elections for October. The increasingly authoritarian president hasn't said he'll run
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's increasingly authoritarian leader has scheduled the next presidential election for October without saying whether he will seek a second term after five tumultuous years at the head of the North African nation once seen as a model of democracy for the Arab world. ...
