According to a statement from the Tunisian presidency on Tuesday
The next presidential election in Tunisia will take place on October 6, 2024, the Tunisian presidency announced in a brief statement issued on its official Facebook page on Tuesday evening.
“Today, Tuesday, July 2, 2024, the President of the Republic, Kais Saied, issued a decree calling voters to the polls for the presidential election on Sunday, October 6, 2024.”
No further details were announced by the Tunisian presidency.
Kaïs Saïed had acceded to the supreme magistracy following the second round of the presidential election of October 13, 2019, which pitted him against Nabil Karoui (currently in exile), former owner of the television channel “Nessma TV”.
He won the election with a score of 72.7%, representing more than 3 million voters, out of an electorate of nearly 8 million and a population of 11.5 million Tunisians.
Two years after his election, on July 25, 2021, in a context of political deadlock and economic crisis, Kaïs Saïed dismissed the government, dissolved the Assembly of People’s Representatives and the High Council of the Judiciary and began to legislate by decree-law.
On July 25, 2022, he organized a referendum to modify the 2014 Constitution, resulting from the revolution, in particular to change the political regime from semi-parliamentary to a presidential regime giving broad prerogatives to the President.
Kaïs Saïed’s approach is widely contested internally, notably by political parties and many civil society organizations, while some points of view consider that Kais Saïed’s action constituted a readjustment of the revolutionary process which overthrew former President Ben Ali on 14 January 2011.
