{"id":182135,"date":"2024-10-09T00:07:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T22:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-president-kais-saied-wins-second-term-in-first-round-of-elections\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T00:07:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T22:07:35","slug":"tunisia-president-kais-saied-wins-second-term-in-first-round-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-president-kais-saied-wins-second-term-in-first-round-of-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: President Kais Saied Wins Second Term in First Round of Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Tunis, Oct. 7 \u2014 Presidential candidate and incumbent President Kais Saied has won a new presidential term, according to official preliminary results announced by the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) on Monday night, showing a wide lead over his two rivals, former MP and businessman Ayachi Zammel and Echaab Movement Secretary General Zouhair Maghzaoui.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Saied, 66, secured 90.69 per cent of the vote, compared to 7.35 per cent for Zammel and 1.97 per cent for Maghzaoui. This gives&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410080066.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>Tunis, Oct. 7 \u2014 Presidential candidate and incumbent President Kais Saied has won a new presidential term, according to official preliminary results announced by the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) on Monday night, showing a wide lead over his two rivals, former MP and businessman Ayachi Zammel and Echaab Movement Secretary General Zouhair Maghzaoui. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":182136,"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\/00660151:543629e7dbfbad0633d5a817ce798f4b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,821,30747,257,2450,30748,254,7557,4703,653,6552],"class_list":["post-182135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-elections","tag-kais","tag-news","tag-president","tag-saied","tag-south-africa-today","tag-term","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-wins"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660151:543629e7dbfbad0633d5a817ce798f4b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182135","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=182135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}