Law professor Kais Saied and detained media mogul Nabil Karoui advance to a second-round runoff in Tunisia’s presidential election
The official results of Tunisia's presidential election are projected on a screen during a press conference held by the Independent Higher Authority for Elections in the capital Tunis. September 17, 2019
The commission's announcement following a full count of votes confirmed exit polls released on Sunday evening and partial results issued throughout Monday. Saied took 18.4 percent of the votes and Karoui took 15.6 percent. Of the other 24 candidates, who included the prime minister, two former prime ministers, a former president and the defence minister, the Ennahda candidate Abdelfattah Mourou came in third with 12.9 percent.
Karoui, a well-known but controversial figure, is the owner of a major TV news channel and the founder of a large charity that focuses on the plight of Tunisia's poor.
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