Eight presidential candidates stood behind their podiums aiming to impress Tunisian voters Saturday evening in the young democracy’s first-ever televised election debate. Although Tunisia has held elections twice since throwing off autocratic rule in the 2011 revolution which triggered the “Arab Spring” uprisings, democracy is still taking root and such direct questioning of all the candidates is a novelty. Only a few patrons of the Essafsaf Cafe in Tunis were ...