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On 19 July 2024 a court barred Lotfi Mraïhi, the president of the Republican People's Union, from standing in elections for life after convicting him of vote-buying involving the 2019 presidential election. He was also sentenced to eight months' imprisonment. [66]
The first president was Habib Bourguiba, who became the country's first president after the proclamation of a republic in 1957; he had been the country's de facto leader as prime minister since independence in 1956. He was formally elected to the post in 1959, and was proclaimed president for life in 1975.
6 October – 2024 Tunisian presidential election: President Saied is elected to a second term in office after winning 90.7% of the vote amid a boycott by opposition figures and a turnout of 28.8%. [18] [19] 21 October – Kais Saied is inaugurated for a second term as president. [20]
Tunisia's increasingly authoritarian leader has scheduled the next presidential election for October without saying whether he will seek a second term after five tumultuous years at the head of ...
There are currently three living former presidents. The most recent former president to die was Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, on 19 September 2019. The presidency of Mohamed Ennaceur, who assumed the office as acting president following the death of incumbent president Beji Caid Essebsi, was the shortest in Tunisian history (90 days).
Tunisian President Kais Saied announced on Sunday a broad cabinet reshuffle of 19 ministers that included those for defence, foreign affairs and the economy, ahead of a presidential election on ...
Tunisians bid farewell to their first democratically elected president Beji Caid Essebsi at a state funeral on Saturday attended by foreign leaders including French President Emanuel Macron and ...
Tunisia, President [83] 9 October: Mozambique, President and Parliament [84] 13 October: Lithuania, Parliament (1st round) [85] 20 October: Moldova, President (1st round) and Constitutional Referendum [86] 24 October: Montserrat, Parliament [87] 25 October: Kiribati, President [88] 26 October: Georgia, Parliament [89] 27 October: Bulgaria ...