Tunisian media magnate Nabil Karoui remains in the race for next month's pr...
TUNIS - Tunisian media magnate Nabil Karoui remains in the race for next month’s presidential election despite his arrest on Friday, the electoral commission said on Saturday.
Tunisian police arrested Karoui after a court ordered his detention in a case involving charges of money laundering and tax evasion. His party said his detention was a politically motivated attempt to exclude him from the election race. “As long as there are no changes in his legal status and no final verdict, Nabil Karoui remains a presidential candidate,” Nabil Baffoun, the head of the electoral commission, told reporters.
Karoui’s main rival among the 26 candidates in the race is Prime Minister Youssef Chahed. Other candidates include former president Moncef Marzouki and Abdel Fattah Mourou, vice president of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party.
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