Largest party calls for dialogue after the president sacked PM and suspended parliament causing a constitutional crisis.
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Tunisian migrants and asylum seekers being held on boats off the coast of Italy have drowned or attempted suicide.
![The quarantine ship Moby Zaza with migrants on board who have been quarantined and are waiting to disembark, moors in the port of Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Italy, on July 6, 2020. Some 180 migrants rescued in international waters arrived on board the Ocean Viking to be transferred onto the Moby Zaza [Carmelo Imbesi/EPA-EFE]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/h_56198186-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
As Europe becomes the epicentre of new coronavirus, Tunisia cautiously watches with 24 cases confirmed in the country.
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The vote is Tunisia’s second presidential election since the 2011 revolution.
Leading candidate in Tunisia’s presidential election is currently in jail facing money laundering, tax evasion charges.
Many younger people do not trust the political class and are frustrated by the lack of gains since the revolution.
![Bayari cafe at a screening in central Tunis organised by the association IWatch (they chose this cafe because it is where they go to watch football usually). [Layli Foroudi/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/df6e701f9c764deca334b0dca23a866d_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
