Tunisia women jailed for ‘buying’ candidate endorsements

Tunisia has sentenced four women to jail after convicting them of buying signatures of endorsement for a would-be challenger to President Kais Saied in upcoming elections, a court spokesman said Friday, as reported by AFP.
Candidate registration for the October 6 presidential election began on
Monday and next Tuesday.
Saied critics from across the political spectrum have complained that new,
tougher endorsement requirements are making it nearly impossible to get on the
ballot paper.