Tunisia’s electoral board said Monday it approved three candidates for an October 6 presidential election, ignoring court rulings that had granted appeals by three other hopefuls who had been rejected.
The three dismissed candidates were among 14 potential contenders to be turned down by the electoral board, ISIE, last month for not obtaining enough endorsements to challenge President Kais Saied.
Last week, the three hopefuls unexpectedly won appeals at the administrative court against ISIE’s decision, in a verdict the court called “definitive”.
But on Monday, ISIE chief Farouk Bouasker said the board’s initial list of candidates was also “definitive” and “not subject to appeal”.
Bouasker said the ISIE was maintaining the initial list because “the administrative court did not officially communicate its decisions within a 48-hour deadline, as per the law”.
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