Tunisia’s President Faces Little Challenge Ahead of Sunday’s Vote

Paris — On a warm fall evening five years ago, supporters of the moderate Islamist Ennadha party packed one end of Tunis’ Habib Bourguiba Boulevard, the iconic landmark of Tunisia’s 2011 revolution. The other end hosted a boisterous get-out-the vote for business tycoon Nabil Karaoui — one of 26 candidates running in the North African country’s 2019 presidential race.

Tunisians voting Sunday will face a sharply narrower field. Out of 14 aspiring presidential candidates, the country’s electoral…