(6 Oct 2024)
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Tunis – 6 October 2024
1. Various of people outside polling station
2. Various of people queuing up to cast their ballots
3. Various of people voting
4. Wide of polling station
STORYLINE:
Polls opened in Tunisia on Sunday for presidential elections.
With his major opponents imprisoned or left off the ballot, Tunisian President Kais Saied faces few obstacles to winning reelection on Sunday, five years after riding anti-establishment backlash to a first term.
The North African country’s Oct. 6 presidential election is its third since protests led to the 2011 ouster of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali — the first autocrat toppled in the Arab Spring uprisings that also overthrew leaders in Egypt, Libya and Yemen.
International observers praised the previous two contests as meeting democratic norms.
However, a raft of arrests and actions taken by a Saied-appointed election authority have raised questions about whether this year’s race is free and fair.
And opposition parties have called for a boycott.
AP video by Annie Risemberg
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