{"id":177953,"date":"2024-08-05T21:12:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T19:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-president-saied-files-for-presidential-election-in-bid-for-second-term\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T21:12:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T19:12:23","slug":"tunisia-president-saied-files-for-presidential-election-in-bid-for-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-president-saied-files-for-presidential-election-in-bid-for-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: President Saied Files for Presidential Election in Bid for Second Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Tunis, August 5 \u2014 President Kais Saied submitted Monday his candidacy file for October 6 presidential election at the headquarters of the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Saied had officially announced his bid for re-election on July 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">&#8220;If I had the choice, I would not have chosen [to run]. But, when the national duty , there is no room for hesitation. I announce my candidacy for the presidential elections to continue the path of struggle for national liberation,&#8221; President&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408050213.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis, August 5 \u2014 President Kais Saied submitted Monday his candidacy file for October 6 presidential election at the headquarters of the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE). Saied had officially announced his bid for re-election on July 19. &#8220;If I had the choice, I would not have chosen [to run]. But, when the national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":177954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,10798,3119,14573,257,2450,6438,30748,254,7557,4703,653],"class_list":["post-177953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-election","tag-files","tag-news","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-saied","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}