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Tunisia’s exit polls indicate that academic Kais Saied is heading for a landslide victory in the Presidential runoff, sweeping aside his rival, Nabil Karoui.

Mr Saied is projected to secure nearly 70 per cent of the votes according to two different exit polls. Sixty-one-year-old Saied is an independent candidate with no political experience. Thousands of people took to the streets of the capital Tunis to celebrate Saied’s victory.

In his first reaction, Mr Saied thanked the country’s young people for turning a new page and vowed to try to build a new Tunisia. The poll, Tunisia’s second free Presidential elections since its 2011 revolt, followed the death of President Beji Caid Essebsi in July.

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