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To ensure he wins Sunday’s election, Tunisia’s president has effectively eliminated his opponents before the first vote is cast. <\/em><\/p>\n Undeterred by mounting criticism at home and abroad, Tunisian President Ka\u00efs Sa\u00efed continues to strangle the country’s fragile young democracy (if it can still be called a democracy). This Sunday (6 October) he will run for a second term of office against the only two candidates permitted to stand against him, one of whom is in prison.<\/p>\n Last month the Independent High…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> To ensure he wins Sunday’s election, Tunisia’s president has effectively eliminated his opponents before the first vote is cast. Undeterred by mounting criticism at home and abroad, Tunisian President Ka\u00efs Sa\u00efed continues to strangle the country’s fragile young democracy (if it can still be called a democracy). This Sunday (6 October) he will run for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":181982,"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":[258,256,16500,4854,12760,6038,16499,257,2450,30748,254,4703,653,6932],"class_list":["post-181981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coffin","tag-democracy","tag-drives","tag-final","tag-nail","tag-news","tag-president","tag-saied","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisian"],"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\/181981","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=181981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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