Tunisia readies for vote as incumbent Saied eyes victory

The near-certainty of Saied's win has created a mood of resignation in opposition ranks and made for a deeply lacklustre campaign. There have been no campaign rallies or public debates and nearly all the campaign posters in city streets have been the incumbent's. It is a major step back for a country that long prided itself as the birthplace of the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 and a contrast even with the 2019 election that thrust Saied, then a little known law lecturer, to power. The political outsider won by a landslide...