Kais Saied

President of Tunisia

22 February 1958 Tunis, Tunisia

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Incumbent

President of the Republic of Tunisia Kais Saied (Arabic: قَيس سعيّد ‎; born 22 February 1958) is a Tunisian politician, jurist and a retired university professor of constitutional law serving as the President of Tunisia since October 2019. He was president of the Tunisian Association of Constitutional Law from 1995 to 2019. An independent candidate in the 2019 presidential election, he defeated Nabil Karoui in the second round of voting.