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Tunisia President Kais Saied Poised for Reelection Amid Ongoing Repression

Tunisia President Kais Saied Poised for Reelection Amid Ongoing Repression

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Kais Saied, the incumbent president of Tunisia, is expected to win the presidential election with a significant margin of support, ranging from 89.2% to 90.7% according to different sources.

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Agnès Callamard
Amnesty International
1. Tunisian authorities are waging a clear pre-election assault on the pillars of human rights.
Bassam Khawaja
Human Rights Watch
1. Holding elections amid such repression makes a mockery of Tunisians' right to participate in free and fair elections.
2. Since the start of the electoral period on 14 July, authorities have prosecuted, convicted, or detained at least nine prospective candidates.
3. It's no surprise President Saied looks poised to win a second term after authorities did everything in their power to clear the field for him, from excluding and arresting prospective challengers, ignoring legal rulings to reinstate candidates.
Youssef Cherif
I Watch
1. He's willing to do anything it takes to stay in power — dividing Tunisians, prosecuting them, accusing them.
Bassem Trifi
Tunisian Human Rights League
1. The streets are still active in denouncing attacks on freedoms and human rights two days before the elections.
Hatem Nafti
1. He'll continue. The shortages in food and water will be caused by traitors, other countries, I don't know, the West.
2. He promised to fight for a new and independent Tunisia. As far as I was aware, Tunisia's been independent since 1956, but that's all he had and, looking at the results, it seems all he needed to have.
3. The vote's legitimacy is undoubtedly tainted with candidates who could have overshadowed (Saied) being systematically sidelined.
Sarah Yerkes
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1. If you just look at the broad form of it, it appears to be a normal, potentially democratic election.
2. But once you start to peel the layers off, it becomes very clear that this election is nowhere close to free or fair.
3. This election really spells the end of Tunisia's democratic transition.
4. He's a constitutional law professor. He operates using legal — with legal in quotes — means.
5. By manipulating the 2024 presidential election, Saied has put one more nail in the coffin of Tunisia's democratic transition and ensured the outcome well before the process began.
Hamza Meddeb
Carnegie Middle East Center
1. Also, let's not forget, there are many people who just support the president and what he says is his war on corruption. They believe his populist message. They don't see that jobs aren't being created and the economy's worsening.
2. I think turnout might have been even lower, but the opposition were very divided.
3. EU officials and diplomats will all recognise the election.
4. Saied didn't have to deal with that. He was able to mobilise his entire base. He's supported by the security services, much of the state, as well as the hundreds of thousands of people who rely upon it for financial survival.
5. People had a choice whether to back the opposition candidates or to boycott the process entirely.
Mounir Laadouli
1. I have hope that he will make a change.

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