10/09/2019
Key candidates eyeing Tunisian presidency
Twenty-six candidates, including two women, are vying to replace Tunisia's late leader Beji Caid Essebsi in Sunday's presidential polls. Here are brief profiles of the main hopefuls: Prime Minister Youssef Chahed Now aged 43, he became Tunisia's youngest ever premier in 2016 when Essebsi picked him to head the government as a member of the late president's ruling Nidaa Tounes party. Internal conflicts -- including a power struggle between Chahed and the late president's son ......
