- Title: Polls open as Tunisians pick new president in final round of voting
- Date: 13th October 2019
- Summary: TUNIS, TUNISIA (OCTOBER 13, 2019) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** PEOPLE GATHERED OUTSIDE POLLING STATION / POLLING STATION DOORS OPENING AND MILITARY MEMBERS WALKING OUT / PEOPLE ENTERING POLLING STATION PEOPLE AND MEDIA ENTERING POLLING STATION POLLING STATION STAFF SITTING AT TABLE / VOTER CASTING BALLOT MEDIA INSIDE POLLING STATION VOTERS CASTING BALLOTS
- Embargoed: 27th October 2019 08:25
- Keywords: Tunisia election votings polls North Africa Middle East ballot box
- Location: TUNIS, TUNISIA
- City: TUNIS, TUNISIA
- Country: Tunisia
- Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA001B0XJRRB
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- Story Text: Tunisians went to the polls on Sunday (October 13) to choose their next president in an election that has raised hard questions for the young democracy, as voters rejected established politicians and a major candidate had spent weeks behind bars.
Sunday's decisive runoff pits Kais Saied, an independent retired law professor, against Nabil Karoui, a media mogul facing corruption allegations, after they won more votes than any of the other 24 candidates in the first round last month.
Karoui was only released from detention on Wednesday (October 9) after spending most of the election campaign behind bars awaiting a verdict in his corruption trial. He denies all accusations of wrongdoing.
Both candidates present themselves as outsiders taking on an establishment that has failed to improve Tunisia's economy or arrest a decline in living standards since the 2011 revolution that introduced democracy and inspired the "Arab spring".
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