{"id":181911,"date":"2024-10-05T11:59:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T09:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-fear-and-resignation-ahead-of-tunisias-lopsided-presidential-polls\/"},"modified":"2024-10-05T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T09:59:50","slug":"tunisia-fear-and-resignation-ahead-of-tunisias-lopsided-presidential-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-fear-and-resignation-ahead-of-tunisias-lopsided-presidential-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Fear and Resignation Ahead of Tunisia&#8217;s &#8216;Lopsided&#8217; Presidential Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em> Nearly 10 million Tunisians are gearing up to vote on Sunday in presidential elections dominated by incumbent leader Kais Saied, whose rule has been marked by accusations of authoritarianism. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Critics say the outcome of the vote is a foregone conclusion, with no real electoral rallies or debates and very few campaign posters, most of which feature only Saied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">International organisations like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/fr\/middle-east-north-africa\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisie-une-election-presidentielle-haut-risque?utm_source=http:\/\/t.co\/&amp;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crisis Group<\/a> have raised concerns about the election, while Vincent Geisser, a researcher at France&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410040541.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>Nearly 10 million Tunisians are gearing up to vote on Sunday in presidential elections dominated by incumbent leader Kais Saied, whose rule has been marked by accusations of authoritarianism. Critics say the outcome of the vote is a foregone conclusion, with no real electoral rallies or debates and very few campaign posters, most of which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":181912,"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\/00631540:fd3daf9fa5b1e68a1d6d21f97c533c39:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,7019,12166,49678,257,8059,6438,14238,254,4703,653,6684],"class_list":["post-181911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-fear","tag-lopsided","tag-news","tag-polls","tag-presidential","tag-resignation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00631540:fd3daf9fa5b1e68a1d6d21f97c533c39:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181911","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=181911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}