Law professor Kais Saied and detained media mogul Nabil Karoui won most votes in the first round of Tunisia's presidential election and will contest a runoff vote, the independent electoral commission said Tuesday.
Saied won 18.4 percentage of votes and Karoui 15.6 percentage, while Abdelfattah Mourou of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party came third in a crowded field of 26 candidates with 12.9 percentage, the commission said in a televised statement.
Reuters
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