{"id":180827,"date":"2024-09-18T23:19:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T21:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisias-presidential-campaign-continues-amid-protests-over-restricted-freedoms\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T23:19:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T21:19:34","slug":"tunisias-presidential-campaign-continues-amid-protests-over-restricted-freedoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisias-presidential-campaign-continues-amid-protests-over-restricted-freedoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia&#8217;s Presidential Campaign Continues Amid Protests Over Restricted Freedoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\"><em> In Tunisia, the presidential election campaign kicked off on Saturday, ahead of the vote scheduled for 6 October. Only three candidates are in the running for the presidency. Meanwhile, some activists have begun protesting, raising concerns about a &#8220;climate of fear&#8221;. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Political posters of the three presidential candidates started appearing in Tunis as soon as campaigning began, but few people were ready to talk about politics, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/fr\/afrique\/20240915-en-tunisie-les-premiers-jours-de-la-campagne-%C3%A9lectorale-pour-la-pr%C3%A9sidentielle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RFI&#8217;s correspondent in Tunis<\/a>, Amira Soualem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Just days&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409180170.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>In Tunisia, the presidential election campaign kicked off on Saturday, ahead of the vote scheduled for 6 October. Only three candidates are in the running for the presidency. Meanwhile, some activists have begun protesting, raising concerns about a &#8220;climate of fear&#8221;. Political posters of the three presidential candidates started appearing in Tunis as soon as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":180828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00391061:f6d1c634852240c8ff771b4dfac226a5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,4302,5106,10835,257,6438,5253,14921,254,653,6684],"class_list":["post-180827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-campaign","tag-continues","tag-freedoms","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-protests","tag-restricted","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00391061:f6d1c634852240c8ff771b4dfac226a5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180827","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=180827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}