Polling stations across Tunisia opened at 08.00 a.m. local time (07:00 GMT) on Sunday morning for the presidential elections, as the country’s President Beji Caid Essebsi died earlier this year. Nabil Bafon, the chairman of the Independent High Elections Commission, said that about 250 polling centers in western areas of the country will be opened two hours late for security reasons. On Saturday, two presidential candidates -- Mohsen Marzoul and ...
![Tunisian troops takes part in an official ceremony marking the third anniversary of the uprising that ousted long-time dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on Tuesday in Tunis. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/News/1389687980032277000.jpg?itok=E-P5wcr7 "Tunisian troops takes part in an official ceremony marking the third anniversary of the uprising that ousted long-time dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on Tuesday in Tunis. [AFP]")
