{"id":182040,"date":"2024-10-07T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T10:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-votes-in-presidential-polls-marked-by-economic-and-political-woes\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T12:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T10:04:10","slug":"tunisia-votes-in-presidential-polls-marked-by-economic-and-political-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-votes-in-presidential-polls-marked-by-economic-and-political-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia Votes in Presidential Polls Marked By Economic and Political Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em> Tunisians are headed to the polls on Sunday for presidential elections widely expected to be dominated by incumbent leader Kais Saied, who&#8217;s seeking a new term amid a struggling economy and political tensions. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nearly nine million people are expected to cast their vote in the third presidential election since Tunisia&#8217;s 2011 Arab Spring uprising, which paved the way for the country&#8217;s transition to democracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Key issues include Tunisia&#8217;s stalled economy and high unemployment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">President Saied has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410070014.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>Tunisians are headed to the polls on Sunday for presidential elections widely expected to be dominated by incumbent leader Kais Saied, who&#8217;s seeking a new term amid a struggling economy and political tensions. Nearly nine million people are expected to cast their vote in the third presidential election since Tunisia&#8217;s 2011 Arab Spring uprising, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":182041,"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":[258,256,3576,8071,257,6378,8059,6438,254,4703,653,10348,9855],"class_list":["post-182040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-economic","tag-marked","tag-news","tag-political","tag-polls","tag-presidential","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-votes","tag-woes"],"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\/182040","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=182040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}