Layli Foroudi

Largest par­ty calls for di­a­logue af­ter the pres­i­dent sacked PM and sus­pend­ed par­lia­ment caus­ing a con­sti­tu­tion­al cri­sis.

Tunisian mi­grants and asy­lum seek­ers be­ing held on boats off the coast of Italy have drowned or at­tempt­ed sui­cide.

As Eu­rope be­comes the epi­cen­tre of new coro­n­avirus, Tunisia cau­tious­ly watch­es with 24 cas­es con­firmed in the coun­try.

The vote is Tunisia’s sec­ond pres­i­den­tial elec­tion since the 2011 rev­o­lu­tion.

Lead­ing can­di­date in Tunisia’s pres­i­den­tial elec­tion is cur­rent­ly in jail fac­ing mon­ey laun­der­ing, tax eva­sion charges.

Many younger peo­ple do not trust the po­lit­i­cal class and are frus­trat­ed by the lack of gains since the rev­o­lu­tion.