According to polls released from the polls, the two anti-system candidates Kais Saied and Nabil Karoui would arrive at the top of the first round of the Tunisian presidential election.
Everyone admires Tunisian democracy.
His neighbors envied the televised debates of this presidential election. What a flattering mirror!
But the reality is a broken down system and the reality of numbers. While in 2014, the participation was 63%, there was one-third less voters this Sunday, as in the last municipal, as if the Tunisians no longer believed in politics.
In any case, they no longer believe politicians. Three former prime ministers, a former president and the current head of government take a beating. The two great forces of parliament, the liberal center and the Islamist party are swept away.
In the middle of the rubble, two outsiders: Nabil Karoui and Kaïs Saïed. Everything opposes these two men who oppose the system. The billionaire who was campaigning in Range Rover, handing out gifts like a Santa off season, with his wife in stiletto. And the academic who drives in his old Peugeot, without party, without meeting, without social networks. The first one is populist and does TV, the other speaks in classical Arabic and does TV.
Nabil Karoui is in prison and it will be difficult to leave him there. Kaïs Saïed teaches constitutional law, he believes to be the Law and the other twisted.
The second round will further simplify the equation.
Kais Said invokes shariah, he will have the support of Islamists. Otherwise, Nabil Karoui must wake the people.
The real campaign starts this morning.