Kaïs Saïed.macaroni Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/kais-saied-macaroni/ The low down on African affairs Sat, 12 Oct 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Kaïs Saïed.macaroni Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/kais-saied-macaroni/ 32 32 Tunisians are voting for a new president https://jjcornish.com/2019/10/tunisians-are-voting-for-a-new-president/ Sat, 12 Oct 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/10/tunisians-are-voting-for-a-new-president/ Tunisians are voting for a president to replace Beji Caid Essebsi who died last July. Contenders in the run-off-election are a conservative law professor campaigning on an integrity ticket and populist television mogul who has spend all but four days of the campaign in jail. Kaïs Saïed and Nabil Karoui went face to face in […]

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]]> Tunisians are voting for a president to replace Beji Caid Essebsi who died last July.
Contenders in the run-off-election are a conservative law professor campaigning on an integrity ticket and populist television mogul who has spend all but four days of the campaign in jail.
Kaïs Saïed and Nabil Karoui went face to face in a television debate on Friday, reiterating their strategies that eclipsed the political establishment.
Saïed, who won the first round,  spoke of a return to the old values.
Karoui, who is facing tax evasion and money laundering charges, spoke of his philanthropy that has earned him the nickname Macaroni.
Analysts are looking at the turnout which was a paltry 42 % in the parliamentary election last Sunday.

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