Tunisians vote in presidential election with few opposition candidates

With his major opponents imprisoned or left off the ballot, Tunisian President Kais Saied faces few obstacles to winning re-election on Sunday.

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00:00Millions of registered voters head to the polling stations in Tunisia today to vote

00:06for their upcoming president.

00:10With his main opponents imprisoned or left off the ballot, Kayy Saied is expected to

00:15win a second term.

00:20Tunisia's previous two elections have been praised for meeting democratic norms since

00:24the overturn of the autocratic Ben Ali in the 2011 Arab Spring.

00:30But recent actions, such as arrests made by Saied-appointed officials, raised questions

00:35on whether this election meets those same norms.

00:41Democracy advocates have been urging the European Union to put more pressure onto the government.

00:46But since migration has drastically fallen since the recent deal with the EU and Tunisia

00:51under Saied's ruling, analysts fear that this important role of the incumbent president

00:56might overshadow the potential backsliding of democracy.