Tunisians cast ballots on Sunday to choose their next president in an election t...
TUNIS - Tunisians cast ballots on Sunday to choose their next president in an election that has raised hard tests for the young democracy as voters rejected established politicians and a major candidate spent weeks behind bars.
At a polling station in the working class Ettadamon district of Tunis, there seemed to be greater excitement than in the first round or last week’s parliament election, as officials announced turnout was higher than in those votes. The two candidates offer starkly different options for president: Saied has spent almost nothing on his campaign, has the backing of both leftists and Islamists, and wants Tunisia to adopt an experimental form of direct democracy.
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”. Whoever wins the presidential race, along with any governing coalition that can be forged in the fragmented parliament, will face the same problems that have bedeviled recent governments: unemployment of 15%, inflation of 6.8% and high public debt.
“The playing field was disrupted and that was a significant factor in the election,” the electoral monitor said.
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