Tunisia will hold its second free presidential election by universal suffrage since the 2011 uprising
Polling agents carry ballot boxes and election materials to be distributed to polling stations, ahead of Sunday's presidential election in Tunis, Tunisia, September 14, 2019.
While outsiders, especially in Arab states, are watching the fortunes of the Ennahda party, many Tunisians have been engrossed by the candidacy of a media magnate who was imprisoned last month on suspicion of tax fraud, and whose campaign has focused on the poor. Though Sunday's vote is unlikely to produce a clear winner, with the two top candidates to hold a run-off if none of them win an outright majority, it will still influence a parliamentary election on October 6.Tunisia's revolution began with the self-immolation of a desperate vegetable seller in December 2010, then mass protests that forced former president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali to seek exile in Saudi Arabia and soon spread across the Arab world.
The crowded field boasts some of Tunisia's biggest names, including current and former prime ministers and the first ever presidential candidate from the country's strongest party, as well as the detained media magnate, Nabil Karoui. Karoui denies wrongdoing and complains his detention has denied him the right to contest the election on equal terms with his rivals.His supporters say his arrest shortly before the start of the campaign over a tax fraud case that was initiated years ago is evidence of undemocratic behaviour on the part of the authorities, who they say are trying to silence him.
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