Candidate Karoui votes in final round of Tunisia's presidential election

Record ID: 1436555

  • Title: Candidate Karoui votes in final round of Tunisia's presidential election
  • Date: 13th October 2019
  • Summary: TUNIS, TUNISIA (OCTOBER 13, 2019) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, NABIL KAROUI, ARRIVING VARIOUS OF KAROUI WALKING INTO POLLING STATION, REGISTERING TO VOTE NABIL KAROUI LIFTING INDEX FINGER UP AFTER DIPPING IT IN INDELIBLE INK JOURNALISTS SURROUNDING KAROUI VARIOUS OF KAROUI SHOWING VOTING CARD TO MEDIA JOURNALISTS SURROUNDING KAROUI KAROUI FILLING OUT BALLOT KAROUI WALKING UP TO BALLOT BOX KAROUI CASTING BALLOT (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, NABIL KAROUI, SAYING: "I am happy today because I performed my duty and voted. As you know, in the first round, and in the parliamentary elections I was wrongfully imprisoned. I call on all Tunisians to come out to vote so we can fix the circumvention that occurred during the first round of presidential elections. They circumvented the votes, and that led to unequal opportunity. But today, we have a chance to bring back the Tunisia that we know and love." POLICE OFFICER STANDING OUTSIDE POLLING STATION PEOPLE FILLING OUT BALLOTS INSIDE POLLING STATION MAN REGISTERING TO VOTE MAN CASTING BALLOT WOMAN SITTING AT TABLE, WATCHING VOTER FILL OUT BALLOT WOMAN CASTING BALLOT (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) VOTER, NASIR SYDANY, SAYING: "We want (the president) to help Tunisia succeed and bring it out of its current bind, specifically the situation of the Dinar and its fluctuating price. The president must do everything in his power to achieve economic diplomacy in order to improve the economic situation in Tunisia." VARIOUS OF VOTER QUEUING OUTSIDE POLLING STATION
  • Embargoed: 27th October 2019 10:32
  • Keywords: Tunisia presidential election Karoui Tunis vote
  • Location: TUNIS, TUNISIA
  • City: TUNIS, TUNISIA
  • Country: Tunisia
  • Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA001B0XK2TJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Presidential candidate Nabil Karoui cast his ballot in the final vote of Tunisia's presidential election on Sunday (October 13), eight years after a revolution that forged a new democracy and inspired the "Arab spring".
    Karoui, a media mogul, 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.
    Sunday's vote is the third national election in five weeks, following the first-round of the presidential vote in September. Karoui won 15.6% of the vote in the first round, behind independent retired law professor Kais Saied who won 18.4%.
    The presidential vote was originally scheduled for November, but was accelerated by the death in July of 92-year-old Beji Caid Essebsi, the first directly elected head of state in a free election after the transition to democracy that began in 2011.
    (Production: Sayed Sheasha, Muhammed Abughanyea, Seham Eloraby, Rosalind Church)
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