Unofficial results: Qais Said and Nabil Karoui in the runoff round of Tunisian presidencies

Tunisian presidential candidates Nabil Karoui, detained in prison and Qais Said, announced that they have moved to the second round of the elections based on the results of two polls, while the Independent High Electoral Commission announced that the participation rate in the country's elections reached 45%.

"Nabil Karoui is in the second round," an official of the Karoui party (heart of Tunisia) told AFP.

Qais Said told the same agency, "The first place I have been given a great responsibility towards the people so that we can go together from despair to hope and hope to work."

Estimating statistics for Sigma Consai also showed that candidates Kais Said and Nabil Karoui qualified for the second round of the Tunisian presidential elections.

According to the estimated results presented by Sigma Konsai on the Tunisian private television channel, Qais Said stood for independent candidate with 19.50% of the vote.

Nabil Karoui came second with 15.5% and Ennahdha candidate Abdel Fattah Moro came in third with 11%.

Independent candidate and outgoing Defense Minister Abdul Karim al-Zubaidi came in fourth place with 9.4 percent.

This comes at a time when the head of the Independent High Electoral Commission announced that the rate of participation in the elections in Tunisia reached 45%, while the percentage abroad was 19.7%.

Differentiated positions
"They refuse to impose a fait accompli by announcing the results of sounding opinions," said Samir Dello, campaign manager of Ennahda candidate Abdel Fattah Moro.

In contrast, former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki acknowledged his failure to pass to the second round of the presidential elections, describing the results obtained by disappointing.

Marzouki said in a statement posted on his Facebook page that he "bears full responsibility for his failure to convince voters of himself and his program to lead Tunisia".

Said is a retired constitutional law professor, and emerged particularly after the 2011 revolution in the media platforms with his eloquence in Arabic.

The villager has been in jail since August 23 on charges of tax evasion and money laundering, and has been unable to campaign and participate in a television debate with other candidates.

Supporters of presidential candidate Nabil Karoui began celebrating in front of his campaign headquarters immediately after polling stations were closed on Sunday.