ETHIOPIA: TPLF Congress

presidential candidates and to keep Saied "running alone" had reached a degree of "absurdity".He said that the presidential elections did not meet the conditions for a "fair competition" and that the most pressing issue in the elections was that of "legitimacy".(Sources as referenced in text) Meanwhile, Tunisian rapper Karim Gharbi, better known as K2Rhym, was sentenced to four years in prison in absentia on August 14th for allegedly buying voter signatures to qualify for upcoming presidential elections, a judicial spokesperson said.A court in Jendouba also fined Gharbi Dinars 5,000 dinars (around $1,600) and stripped him of the right to vote, spokesman Alaedine Aouadi told AFP.The court also sentenced the president of the commune of Jendouba to one year in jail and a fine of TD1,000, and a colleague of the rapper to four years in prison and a fine of TD5,000.Gharbi, who lives abroad and was the son-in-law of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, had announced in a video at the end of July his intention to run in the presidential election.