By RFIPalled on 14-09-2019Modified on 14-09-2019 at 04:35

Tunisia holds its breath before the first round of the presidential election tomorrow. The advance poll challenges 26 candidates to succeed President Essebsi who died in July. The campaign closed on Friday 13 September. At the time of choice, the former dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, was invited in the election because his health has deteriorated in recent days.

Tunisia holds its breath before the first round of the presidential election tomorrow. The advance poll challenges 26 candidates to succeed President Essebsi who died in July. The campaign closed on Friday 13 September. At the time of choice, the former dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, was invited in the election because his health has deteriorated in recent days.

Exiled in Saudi Arabia , former president Ben Ali would be sick. The fallen dictator's own daughter intervened to say that he was not dying, but suffering as he can be at 83 years old. It was enough for the resurgence of the famous debate on the end of life of the one who settled in Carthage November 7, 1987 before being chased on January 14, 2011.

In May last year, alarming information about his health had inflamed the Web saying he wanted to be buried in Tunisia. The debate for or against his eventual return to Tunisian soil was decided by the executive who showed an end of not receiving. His new hospitalization in a Saudi institution logically put this questioning on the carpet and this time the answer is very different.

The Prime Minister, dressed this time as candidate, is no longer opposed, if he is ill, to his return to the soil where he was born. At a time when every voice counts, Abir Moussi, the only candidate who claims openly the dictator, also hopes to drain the revival nostalgic evoked by the figure of Ben Ali on many voters. But its popularity remains limited as the democratic openness that the country has known has definitely buried all pastist relent of magnitude.

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