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Supporters react after Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed submitted his candidacy for the presidential elections, in Tunis, Tunisia August 9, 2019. REUTERS.
Tunisia’s electoral commission said on Wednesday it had approved 26 candidates including two women for next month’s presidential election and had rejected 71 other applicants.
The Sept. 15 vote follows the death at age 92 last month of Beji Caid Essebsi, the first president to be democratically elected in Tunisia after the popular uprising of 2011. It will be the third free election in Tunisia since that uprising.
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