Report: Russia attempting to use Libya to exert control over Europe’s energy supplies
Russia is strengthening ties with eastern Libyan warlord General Haftar to disrupt European energy supplies and expand its influence in
Tunisia's electoral board said Monday it approved three candidates for an October 6 presidential election, ignoring court rulings that had granted appeals by three other hopefuls who had been rejected.
However 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.
According to reporting last week by AFP, the three hopefuls unexpectedly won appeals at the administrative court against ISIE's decision, in a verdict the court called “definitive".
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