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Four candidates to compete in Tunisia vote
Tunis, Tunisia, Sep. 20 (UPI) -- Four candidates, including Tunisian President Zein el-Abidine Ben Ali, will be competing in the upcoming presidential elections next month.
The candidates for the top post submitted their candidature to the Constitutional Council, which will be overseeing the polls for the first time since it was formed in 1987.
Ben Ali, candidate of the ruling Democratic Constitutional Gathering party, will be running against Mohammed Abu Shiha, secretary-general of the opposition Popular Unity Party; Mounir Baji, the president of the Social Liberation Party, and Mohammed Ali Halwani, head of the National Council for the Renewal Movement, the former communist party.
Two other opposition parties, the Democratic Socialist Movement, which holds 12 seats in parliament and the Democratic Unification Union which holds seven seats in parliament, declared support to Ben Ali's candidacy.
The presidential elections will be held simultaneously with general elections on October 24.
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