Tunisia groups urge inclusion of rejected candidates in poll
Signed by 26 groups including Legal Agenda, Lawyers Without Borders and the Tunisian Human Rights League, it welcomed an administrative court decision this week to reinstate three candidates who had been disqualified.
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Tunisia's former health minister Abdellatif Mekki, pictured here in 2020, is among the rejected candidates that petitioners want to be allowed to stand in the October presidential election. (AFP/File)
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TUNIS - A petition signed by prominent Tunisians and civil society groups was published on Saturday urging that rejected candidates be allowed to stand in the