The spokeswoman for the European External Action Service stressed on Tuesday 17 September the successful holding of the first round of the presidential election in Tunisia.
At the end of this first round, in which the turnout was low (45.02% compared to 64% in the first round of the 2004 presidential election), independent academic Kaïs Saïed came out on top with 18.4% of the votes, compared to 15.58% for the businessman Nabil Karoui, currently in prison. 26 candidates were in the...