{"id":181864,"date":"2024-10-04T23:58:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T21:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisias-president-faces-little-challenge-ahead-of-sundays-vote\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T23:58:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T21:58:37","slug":"tunisias-president-faces-little-challenge-ahead-of-sundays-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisias-president-faces-little-challenge-ahead-of-sundays-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia&#8217;s President Faces Little Challenge Ahead of Sunday&#8217;s Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">Paris \u2014 On a warm fall evening five years ago, supporters of the moderate Islamist Ennadha party packed one end of Tunis&#8217; Habib Bourguiba Boulevard, the iconic landmark of Tunisia&#8217;s 2011 revolution. The other end hosted a boisterous get-out-the vote for business tycoon Nabil Karaoui &#8212; one of 26 candidates running in the North African country&#8217;s 2019 presidential race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Tunisians voting Sunday will face a sharply narrower field. Out of 14 aspiring presidential candidates, the country&#8217;s electoral&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410040547.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>Paris \u2014 On a warm fall evening five years ago, supporters of the moderate Islamist Ennadha party packed one end of Tunis&#8217; Habib Bourguiba Boulevard, the iconic landmark of Tunisia&#8217;s 2011 revolution. The other end hosted a boisterous get-out-the vote for business tycoon Nabil Karaoui &#8212; one of 26 candidates running in the North African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":181865,"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":[258,256,7019,7485,5080,257,2450,254,30365,653,6684,8588],"class_list":["post-181864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-challenge","tag-faces","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sundays","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisias","tag-vote"],"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\/181864","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=181864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}