Tunisians protest against President Saied two days before presidential vote

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Tunisians took to the streets of their capital on Oct 4, demanding fairness in the country's Oct 6 presidential election.  Read more at https://shorturl.at/wLwS9  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Tunisians took to the streets of their capital on Friday, demanding fairness in Sunday's

00:06presidential election.

00:08The protesters consider the election unfair, as the Electoral Commission, whose members

00:13were nominated by incumbent President Kays Said, disqualified candidates whom they said

00:18could pose a threat to Said's re-election.

00:21They marched to Habib Bourguiba Avenue, a key site in the 2011 protests that toppled

00:27President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

01:28since the controversial disqualification of prominent candidates, and an independent court

01:33being stripped of the authority to adjudicate election disputes by Parliament.

01:38Said now faces only two other candidates, namely Ayati Zamel and Zuhair Maghzoui.

01:44Zamel, who is a former lawmaker, has been recently sentenced to three jail terms totaling

01:4914 years for forging electoral documents.

01:53Despite that, Zamel has been allowed to contest in the election.

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