Who are the two men claiming victory in the first round of Tunisia’s election?
Essebsi, Tunisia’s first democratically elected president, came to power after the Tunisian Revolution, which was the culmination of months of protests against former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.
Two of the candidates are already claiming they will make it to the second round in October ahead of the results of the election on September 15. They are Kais Saied, a law professor, and Nabil Karoui, a media mogul that has been detained due to a money laundering and tax evasion investigation. “My win brings a big responsibility to change frustration to hope … it is a new step in Tunisian history … it is like a new revolution,” SaiedSaied and also Karoui have both pledged to fight unemployment, a major problem in Tunisia, which suffers from high unemployment.that Saied has no political background but that his straightforward, anti-system image and constitutional law background appealed to young voters.
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