{"id":3828,"date":"2014-07-09T15:27:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T08:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2014-07-09T15:28:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T08:28:18","slug":"ageing-tunisia-ex-pm-to-run-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/ageing-tunisia-ex-pm-to-run-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Ageing Tunisia ex-PM to run for president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis &#8211; Beji Caid Essebsi, the 87-year-old ex-premier and leading opponent of the Islamists, said on Tuesday he will stand in Tunisia&#8217;s presidential poll later this year, if he&#8217;s &#8220;still alive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment, my intention is to run&#8221; in the 23 November election, Essebsi told a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[I say] for the moment, because nothing is certain in life. If I&#8217;m still alive on election day, obviously, I will do my best to be there,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The octogenarian has already been nominated as the candidate of Nidaa Tounes, Tunisia&#8217;s main secular party, which he heads&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tunisia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Africa\/News\/Ageing-Tunisia-ex-PM-to-run-for-president-20140708-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis &#8211; Beji Caid Essebsi, the 87-year-old ex-premier and leading opponent of the Islamists, said on Tuesday he will stand in Tunisia&#8217;s presidential poll later this year, if he&#8217;s &#8220;still alive&#8221;. &#8220;At the moment, my intention is to run&#8221; in the 23 November election, Essebsi told a news conference. &#8220;[I say] for the moment, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,2399,257,2402,4694,2400,254,643,4703,653,2401],"class_list":["post-3828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beji-caid-essebsi","tag-news","tag-nidaa-tounes","tag-north-africa","tag-opponent-of-the-islamists","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunis","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisias-presidential-poll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}