President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia Re-elected for a New Five-year Term

President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, who has been ruling Tunisia since 1987, has been re-elected for a new five-year term with 89.62% of the votes, after the presidential poll held on Sunday. His contenders, Mohamed Bouchiha of the ‘Parti de l’Unité...

Tunisians Voting in Presidential, Legislative Polls

Voters in Tunisia started voting Sunday morning to elect their new president and 214 MPs, for the next five years. Three opposition candidates, Ahmed Brahim Ettajdid (former communist), Mohamed Bouchiha (Popular Unity Party,) and Ahmed Inoubli (Unionist...

Tunisian President Ben Ali Seeks 5th Presidential Term

Tunisian President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, announced Wednesday that he would run for the presidential election in a bid to take a fifth consecutive five-year term, sources told APA. The announcement, which was much awaited by his sympathizers, was made...