Another candidate Nabil Karoui, leader of Tunisian Heart party and a media mogul, was jailed on Aug. 23 for suspected tax evasion and money laundering and released only four days before the second round of presidential election.
Compared with low-profile Saied, Karoui was well known for owning the Nessma TV and a charity called "Khalil Tounes," which distributed food and clothes to the poor on camera.
"We need food, we need clothes, we need better condition, and Nabil Karoui will provide us with everything we need," said Mabrouka Salhi, an old woman.
Karoui ranked second in the first round of election by getting 15.4 percent of the votes, most of which came from rural areas.
"We need food, but the real thing we need is to find a key solving Tunisia's economic problems," said Terbi Nourddine, a middle-aged lawyer who cast a blank ballot.
In his opinion, an ideal leader of the North African country should find proper ways to improve people's lives.
In the almost 12-million-population country, the unemployment rate climbed to 15.3 percent in the second quarter of 2019, according to official statistics, and inflation registered 6.7 percent in September.
Tourism was vital to Tunisia, contributing around eight percent of GDP and providing thousands of job opportunities. However, this industry was strongly damaged in 2017 after dozens of foreign tourists, most from Europe, were killed in a spate of terror attacks in the country.
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