Tunisian Elections

Tunisians will now have to hold a runoff election after candidates failed to receive an outright majority in the presidential elections held this past weekend. It is now reported that the runoff elections will be held on the 29th of September. These elections come after the death of the country’s first democratically elected President Beji Caid Essebsi. Turnout was at a low 45%, despite attempts made to call for young people in Tunisia to vote. Earlier my colleague Ayanda Mkhwanazi spoke to a representative from the commission of elections in Tunisia Kauther Abbess about how vote counting was coming along…To assist us on this we are joined by: • Prof Bheki Mngomezulu, University of Western Cape’s politics department • Ibrahim Dean, researcher at Afro Middle East Center