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Tunisia’s electoral board said Monday it approved three candidates for a 6 October 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 th…

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