Sunday .. Tunisia elects president

Tunisian people go on Sunday to the polls to choose a new Tunisian President.
Compete in the elections, 22 candidates, most notably:
Beji Caid Essebsi:
Founder and President of "Call of Tunisia" party, the winner of the legislative elections held on October 26, 2014, and the first opponent of the Islamists in Tunisia, Ennahda.
Essebsi (87 years), the largest candidates lived, and has already holding government such as the "internal and external" responsibilities under the late President Habib Bourguiba, who ruled Tunisia from 1956 until 1987, also took over the presidency of the parliament between 1990 and 1991 during the reign of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
After the revolution, was assigned to head the government, which led the country until the conduct of the National Constituent Assembly elections, which were the first free elections in Tunisia's history.
Slim Riahi:
A wealthy businessman, 42, heads the "Club Africain" ancient football in Tunisia, and got his "National Federation of the Free", which was founded after the revolution, the third in the last legislative elections behind "Call of Tunisia" and the movement of the Renaissance, to reap 17 seats in parliament.
Hamma Hammami:
Symbols from left, is the most prominent and most opponents of the regime of Habib Bourguiba and system Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who imprisoned, and preferred to stay in Tunisia to exile.
Leader of the Popular Front (a coalition of more than 10 leftist and nationalist parties), which finished fourth in the last legislative elections with 15 seats.
Kulthum Lucknow:
Judge, the only female candidate in the presidential election as an independent, one of the most prominent defenders of the independence of the judiciary during the reign of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. After the revolution headed "AMT" It is the most representative of the judges in Tunisia trade union structure, and provided more than 15,000 citizens from recommending body for the elections to nominate the presidential elections, an independent figure that does not belong to any political party.
Morjane:
Another foreign minister during the reign of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and one of 6 former officials in his regime, fighting the midst of the presidential election.
After the overthrow of the son of Ali, apologized to the people for not working in the system, and the former president founded the "Initiative" party, which says it is based on the thought "Alborguiba", while the party won 3 seats in the recent parliamentary elections.
Moncef Marzouki:
Jurist and former exhibitions in exile to the son of Ali, the founder of the "Congress Party for the Republic", was elected by the National Constituent Assembly elections emerged from 23 October 2011 as president limited powers in exchange for broad powers to the prime minister.
Retreating from running for the presidency:
1. Abdul Raouf Ayadi, President of the "movement and fulfillment" of the Tunisian party.
2. Mustapha Kamel Nabli, the former central bank director.
3 - Rahim Zouari, the candidate of "constitutional movement".
4 - Mohammed Hamdi Head "Democratic Alliance Party."
5. Independent candidate Noureddine Hached.
Number of registered voters:
5.2 million registered voters.
67% of the registered voters in the age group between 18-40 years old, or about 3.4 million voters.
The proportion of men and women are almost equal at about 50 percent.
The largest number of voters in the four provinces that make up the capital of Greater Tunis (Tunisia, Ariana and Manouba, Ben Arous) by the total number of voters, which amounted to one million and 229 thousand and 241 voters.
2. Chambers Sfax Sfax 1 and 2 (South) with a total of 440 thousand and 809 voters.
3. Chambers Nabeul Nabeul 1 and 2 (east) by 369 thousand and 912 voters.
Distributed the rest of the registered voters in the various provinces of the country.
It is noteworthy that the number of Tunisia's population of ten million, 982 thousand and 754 people, more than half of them less than 18 years of age, a small age group that does not have the right to vote in the elections this year.
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