The electoral campaign for the Tunisian presidential elections began today, Saturday, and will continue until October 4, with voting taking place on the sixth of the same month.
In addition to the outgoing president, Kais Saied, the commission accepted the candidacy of engineer and businessman Ayachi Zemal (43 years old), who is detained and being prosecuted on charges of “forging endorsements,” and Zuhair Al-Maghzaoui (59 years old), former parliamentarian and leader of the leftist “People’s Movement.”
According to the Independent High Authority for Elections, one thousand observers assigned for this purpose will supervise the monitoring of the election campaign in the field, noting that the number of registered voters is approximately 9 million and 700 thousand voters.
Saied is seeking to win a second term in the elections, in which the electoral commission disqualified 3 candidates from the race, despite the administrative court’s approval of the legitimacy of their candidacy files.
Yesterday, Friday, more than a thousand people, most of them young people and women, demonstrated in the capital, Tunis, “in defense of rights and freedoms.”
The demonstration was called for by a group of organizations, such as the Tunisian Network for Rights and Freedoms and the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights.
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2024-09-15 03:08:31