On Friday, the Tunisian Ennahda Movement announced its support for candidate and university professor, Kaïs Saïed, who came first in the initial round of the presidential elections. Ennahda explained...

The Tunisian Cabinet Office confirmed that the former president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, would be buried in Tunisia if requested by his family, according to public media outlets....

Tunisia’s judiciary yesterday rejected a request to release presidential hopeful Nabil Karoui. According to Nessma TV, Karoui’s defence team submitted a request for his release after he obtained sufficient...

Now it is official; Kais Saied, hardly known outside the university walls made it to the second round of presidential elections in Tunisia with 18.4 per cent of the...

Ousted Tunisian President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali has died in hospital in Saudi Arabia, Alchourouk news site reported. Citing Tunisian sources the site said Ben Ali died today having suffered...

A Tunisian court has again turned down a request to release jailed media tycoon Nabil Karoui, who along with law professor Kais Saied has reached a runoff in the...

Five Tunisian parties, including the Free Patriotic Movement lately, announced on Wednesday its support of presidential candidate Kais Saied in the second round of elections against his rival Nabil...

Tunisia’s presidential candidate, Kaïs Saïed, has vowed that Algeria will be his first external destination in case he wins the presidency. The independent candidate Saïed said in media statements...

Tunisia’s electoral commission said on Tuesday law professor Kais Saied and detained media mogul Nabil Karoui won the most votes in Sunday’s presidential election, beating veteran political leaders to...

Monday, vote counting continues in Tunisia’s early presidential election. According to opinion polls, independent candidate and constitutional law Professor Kais Saied is leading the results and will be in...

Supporters of the independent presidential candidate, Kais Saied in Tunisia began celebrations after a polling firm projected him as the winner, Anadolu reports. About 45% out of seven million...

Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, as well as two former prime ministers, a former president and the defence minister are among the two dozen candidates hoping to win outright or, if none of them win more than 50%, to advance to a second round run-off.

Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has agreed to the deposed dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, being returned to the country if he is in genuine poor health, Arabi21.com reported on Friday....

Mounir Ben Salha, the lawyer of the overthrown Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, revealed that Ben Ali is in poor health, denying the news of his death....

The voting process for the Tunisian presidential elections for nationals living abroad in six electoral circles has begun on Friday at dawn. This will continue until 15 September, the...

The head of Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement, Rached Ghannouchi, said that many “dictators” are working to thwart Tunisian democracy. He stressed that Ennahda is determined to boost change in Tunisia...

Tunisian media mogul Nabil Karoui, a front-runner in Sunday’s presidential election, has started a hunger strike in prison demanding to be allowed to vote, Reuters reported his lawyer saying...

An independent Tunisian organisation announced on Wednesday the formation of a coalition of 27 associations to monitor presidential and parliamentary elections. This came in a statement made to Anadolu...

Tunisia’s presidential candidate, Abdelfattah Moreau, said yesterday that his electoral program focuses on revising foreign relations and directing them towards economic benefits for the country. “We will review international...

An election debate, entitled The Road to Carthage, was aired Saturday night in Tunisia, for the first time in the country’s history, reported Anadolu Agency. Earlier this month, Tunisian...

A Tunisian appeals court on Tuesday upheld the detention of media magnate Nabil Karoui, a candidate in this month’s presidential election, on suspicion of tax fraud and money laundering,...

The head of the National Guard centre in the Haïdra region in Kasserine, Tunisia was killed, in addition to three shooters, who attacked the units of the National Guard...

Tunisian presidential candidates began campaigning on Monday for the September 15 election against a backdrop of economic troubles and a militant shooting that underlined the challenges facing the only...

When a twenty-six-year old Tunisian vegetable vendor set himself on fire in front of a government building after being slapped by a police officer for not having his cart...

Current presidential candidate and defence minister Abdelkarim Zbidi said, Wednesday, he is ready to work with all parties, including Ennahda while denying comments attributed to him about allying with...

Abdelfattah Mourou, a candidate in Tunisian Ennahda Movement for the upcoming presidential elections, said that the restoration of relations with Syria should be done within the framework of the...

Only state owned media in Tunisia can hold debates between candidates looking to run in the country’s upcoming elections. In a joint decision to set rules on the coverage...

The Tunisian parliament on Thursday approved an amendment to the country’s election and referendum law, Anadolu Agency reports. The amendment aims to ease procedures in objecting to results of presidential polls, in...

26 candidates including two women for next month’s presidential election

Tunisian women dressed traditional clothes to mark National Women's Day in Tunis

The number of candidacies for the Tunisian presidential elections yesterday reached 69, just hours before the closure of submissions at the headquarters of the Independent High Authority for Elections....

Former Tunisian Head of Government and former Ennahda leader Hamadi Jebali presented his candidacy papers for the early presidential elections scheduled for mid-September. Jebali said in media statements that...