16/09/2019
Outsider leads after upset Tunisia presidential poll
Law professor and political outsider Kais Saied was leading Tunisia's presidential polls with just over half of the votes counted, the electoral commission said Monday, in the country's second free vote for head of state since the 2011 Arab Spring. Saied was on 18.7 percent, leading imprisoned media magnate Nabil Karoui, who was on 15.5 percent, according to the electoral commission, ISIE. Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, a presidential hopeful whose popularity has been tarnished by a sluggi ......
