Tunis, Tunisia | AFP | Just weeks after Tunisians rejected ruling political parties in the first round of presidential polls, voters are set to return to the ballot box on Sunday to elect a new parliament. Roughly seven million voters are spoilt for choice in this parliamentary election, the second since …
Read More »Outsider leads after upset Tunisia presidential poll
Tunis, Tunisia | AFP | Law professor and political outsider Kais Saied on Monday led Tunisia’s presidential polls with two-thirds of the votes counted, the electoral commission said, after the country’s second free vote for head of state since the 2011 Arab Spring. Saied was on 18.9 percent, ahead of imprisoned …
Read More »Algeria army chief says he has ‘no political ambition’
Algiers, Algeria | AFP | Algeria’s army chief said Wednesday he has “no political ambition”, days after the key powerbroker urged anti-government protesters to take part in presidential polls set for July. “I have personally committed myself repeatedly… to support the Algerian people” who are protesting “as well as the efforts …
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