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Kais Saied faces fractured political landscape in Tunisia after win

Conservative Kais Saeid has won a landslide victory in Tunisia’s second round of the presidential elections.
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The Oct. 13 landslide victory for outsider presidential candidate Kais Saied was historic by any measure.

After an unpredictable contest in which voters appeared determined to purge traditional parties and public figures that have dominated the post-Arab Spring landscape, Tunisian politics has entered a new era –– though exactly what comes next is anyone’s guess.

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