The Tunisian presidency said in a statement, at dawn on Wednesday, that Tunisian President Kais Saied has set October 6, 2024, as the date for the presidential elections.
The Independent High Electoral Commission stated that “the Commission’s Council will hold a meeting next Thursday to approve the calendar of the presidential elections for the year 2024 and revise Regular Resolution No. 18 of 2014 regarding the rules and procedures for candidacy in the presidential elections, followed by a media point at seven o’clock in the evening at the headquarters of the subsidiary body in Tunis, Kasbah.”
Saied, who has ruled the country since his victory in the 2019 elections, announced last April that he would run for a second presidential term and would submit his candidacy within the legal period for that.
At the time, in a speech on the occasion of the twenty-fourth anniversary of Habib Bourguiba’s death, Saied criticized some parties that boycotted the legislative elections, “but are now flocking to the presidential elections.”
He accused parties he did not name of "throwing into the arms of foreigners," noting that "these parties cannot run in the presidential elections in Tunisia."
He added: "Let many people know that power is not an ambition, a chair, and a couch, as they imagine and dream, but rather it is a responsibility."
He stressed that he "firmed his commitment to cleanse the country of those who wreaked havoc in it everywhere, and there will be no going back."
He added that it is not possible to run for office from “groups that fall into the arms of foreigners,” stressing that “the candidate must be endorsed by Tunisians and elected by Tunisians alone and not by any other party.”
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