"For moral reasons" .. Qais Said will not participate in his election campaign

Amal Hilali - Tunisia

While the candidate for imprisoned Tunisian presidencies forced Nabil Karoui not to campaign for the presidency by judicial decision, his direct rival Qais Said voluntarily chose to hold i'tikaaf at home and not participate in his election campaign out of what he called "moral reasons".

Saeed announced on his official Twitter page that he would not campaign for the second round of the presidential election "for moral reasons and to ensure that ambiguity about equal opportunities is avoided" in relation to jailed rival Nabil Karoui.

Both Karoui and Said, who are in the second round of the presidential election, are running for the Carthage Palace, set by the electoral commission on October 13th.

While candidates from parties, coalitions and independents entered the legislative elections on the day of electoral silence, supporters of the two rural candidates and Said began to promote their electoral programs among the governorates in conjunction with the official launch of the election campaigns for the second round of the presidential term.

A moral obligation
Noufal Said, a member of the presidential campaign for candidate Qais Said to Al Jazeera Net that the latter, unlike the first round, chose to bind his home and not to support his supporters in the field campaigns to publicize his electoral program.

He explained that the independent candidate made his personal decision not to appear from a moral standpoint before he was a politician in relation to the position of his rival villager in prison, despite his belief in the absence of the principle of equal opportunities in relation to his opponent, which is superior in terms of financial and media influence.

In return, he stressed that Said's presidential campaign will continue on the ground by his supporters, volunteers and believers in his vision and his comprehensive political and social vision.

Equal opportunities
On the other hand, the presence of presidential candidate Nabil Karawi in prison since 23 August last on charges of financial corruption, did not prevent his supporters from campaigning for the second round, as confirmed by a member of the campaign Sadeq Jabnoun for Al Jazeera Net.

He expressed his dissatisfaction with the refusal of the judiciary to enable the rural candidate of his constitutional right to appear in the media and promote its programs in the framework of the principle of equal opportunities with candidate Qais Said, who had previously participated in the presidential debate in the first round.

He described the member of the campaign of Karoui not to give the presidential candidates the opportunity of television symmetry in the second round and put their ideas and programs to Tunisians is unacceptable, pointing out that the judiciary rejected Friday a demand to enable the villager to hold a television dialogue despite the approval of the Electoral Commission.

On the other hand, the presence of the villager in prison will not prevent him from continuing his presidential campaign led by his wife in the provinces of Tunisia.

Regarding his position on the decision of the candidate Qais Said not to participate in the conduct of his election campaign, Jebnoun criticized what he called the "election of silence" through the disappearance of both candidates for the presidency of the electorate, and the implications for the transparency of the entire electoral process, refusing to evaluate the decision of their opponent in the presidential.

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The head of the Independent High Electoral Commission Nabil Buffon met with candidate Qais Said, and met in parallel with the candidate Nabil Karawi from inside his prison in Mornaguia prison.

He stressed the member of the electoral commission Adel Al-Princesi of Al-Jazeera Net that the meeting of candidates comes within the framework of talk and coordination on the controls of their presidential campaign and ways to do it in full respect in full respect for the principle of equal opportunities.

The presidential campaign was also the focus of a speech by interim President Mohamed Nasser to Tunisians on Friday night, expressing concern over the credibility of the electoral process in the presence of a jailed candidate.

Al-Nasser stressed that as president and protector of the constitution, he will keep in touch with the judicial parties and the head of the electoral body in order to resolve the electoral situation in which both candidates are in the presidential elections, stressing his respect for the independence of the judicial decision.