Tahya Tounes flops in 2019; Chahed fails to reach the presidential runoff

In the autumn 2019 elections Tahya Tounes won only about 14 of 217 seats and Youssef Chahed was eliminated in the first round of the September presidential vote — a collapse that mirrored the broader implosion of Tunisia's post-2014 secular establishment and cleared the way for the outsider Kais Saied.

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APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Tahya Tounes flops in 2019; Chahed fails to reach the presidential runoff [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/aee048ed-7825-446b-8df9-690f3731ee8b

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Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Tahya Tounes flops in 2019; Chahed fails to reach the presidential runoff." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/aee048ed-7825-446b-8df9-690f3731ee8b.

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@misc{tayyar-event-aee048ed-7825-446b-8df9-690f3731ee8b,
  title     = {{Tahya Tounes flops in 2019; Chahed fails to reach the presidential runoff}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/aee048ed-7825-446b-8df9-690f3731ee8b},
  urldate   = {2026-07-27},
  note      = {Event date: 2019-09-15. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

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APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved July 27, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-07-27},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 2019-09-15. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.