Lawyer: Tunisia presidential candidate jailed for 12 years

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Tunis —

Tunisian person Ayachi Zammel, a campaigner successful the northbound African country's October 6 statesmanlike election, has been jailed for 12 years, his lawyer said connected Tuesday.

"The tribunal successful Tunis sentenced Ayachi Zammel to 12 years successful situation successful 4 cases" related to elector endorsements, lawyer Abdessater Messoudi told AFP.

Messoudi said Zammel "remains a campaigner successful the election" connected Sunday.

The frontrunner is incumbent President Kais Saied, who was elected successful 2019 but aboriginal orchestrated a sweeping powerfulness drawback that included dissolving parliament and replacing it with a legislature with constricted powers.

Former lawmaker Zammel heads a tiny wide party, and had been 1 of conscionable 2 candidates approved by Tunisia's electoral authorization ISIE to situation Saied for the apical post.

Ahead of the vote, ISIE had rejected the bids of immoderate 14 hopefuls.

It yet presented a last database of conscionable 3 candidates — Saied, erstwhile parliamentarian Zouhair Maghzaoui and businessman Zammel.

On September 18, his lawyer said Zammel had been handed a 20-month situation word for charges related to forging elector endorsements.

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