{"id":179952,"date":"2024-09-05T10:46:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T08:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisias-electoral-commission-paves-the-way-for-kais-saieds-second-term\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T10:46:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T08:46:25","slug":"tunisias-electoral-commission-paves-the-way-for-kais-saieds-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisias-electoral-commission-paves-the-way-for-kais-saieds-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia&#8217;s Electoral Commission Paves the Way for Kais Saied&#8217;s Second Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>Commission Should Respect Court Ruling Reinstating Prospective Candidates<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">This week, Tunisia&#8217;s electoral commission <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TapNewsAgency\/status\/1830565980872782020\">confirmed<\/a> only three candidates for the October 6 presidential election, including incumbent President Kais Saied and a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AgenceTAP\/status\/1831280882096689361\">detained<\/a> candidate, disregarding major court rulings that had reinstated three other contenders to stand in the polls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The Independent Electoral Commission for Elections (ISIE) confirmed Saied and two former parliament members, Zouhair Maghzaoui and Ayachi Zammel,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409050014.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>Commission Should Respect Court Ruling Reinstating Prospective Candidates This week, Tunisia&#8217;s electoral commission confirmed only three candidates for the October 6 presidential election, including incumbent President Kais Saied and a detained candidate, disregarding major court rulings that had reinstated three other contenders to stand in the polls. The Independent Electoral Commission for Elections (ISIE) confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":179953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00610477:4067c4f4f7f47543534df4c8da606a38:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,6274,7239,30747,257,10830,40249,254,7557,653,6684],"class_list":["post-179952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commission","tag-electoral","tag-kais","tag-news","tag-paves","tag-saieds","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00610477:4067c4f4f7f47543534df4c8da606a38:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179952","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=179952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}