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Kais Saied

Kais Saied (Arabic: ?????????? ???????????????? ; born 22 February 1958) is a Tunisian politician, jurist and retired assistant professor of law currently serving as the seventh president of Tunisia since October 2019. He was president of the Tunisian Association of Constitutional Law from 1995 to 2019. Having worked in various legal and academic roles since the 1980s, Saied joined the 2019 presidential election as an independent social conservative supported by Ennahda and others across the political spectrum. Running with little campaigning, Saied sought to appeal to younger voters, and pledged to combat corruption and reform the electoral system. He won the second round of the election with 72.71% of the vote, defeating Nabil Karoui, and was sworn in as president on 23 October 2019. In January 2021, protests began in response to alleged police brutality, economic hardship and the COVID-19 pandemic. On 25 July...

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