Tunisian PM Chahed submits bid to run for president

Tunisia's Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, leader of the secular Tahya Tounes party, on Friday, submitted his candidacy for the presidential election expected next month, making him one of the likely frontrunners.

The Sept. 15 vote comes after Beji Caid Essebsi, the first president to be democratically elected in Tunisia after the 2011 uprising, died last month aged 92.