Kais Saied 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.

Kais Saied is the son of Moncef Saied and Zakia Bellagha from Béni Khiar Khiar. According to Saied, his late father protected the young Tunisian-born mixed Jewish-Berber Muslim Gisèle Halimi from the Nazis. His mother, although educated, is a housewife. His family is of a rather modest origin but intellectual and a member of the middle class. His paternal uncle, Hicham Saied, was the first pediatric surgeon in Tunisia, known for having separated two conjoined twins in the 1970s.

Kais Saied completed his secondary studies at Sadiki College. Having worked in various legal and academic roles since the 1980s, Saied joined the 2019 presidential election as an independent social conservative. Running on a populist platform with little campaigning, Saied sought to appeal to younger voters, pledged to combat corruption and supported improving the electoral system. Saied won the second round of the election with 72.71% of the vote, defeating Nabil Karoui, and was sworn in as president on 23 October 2019.

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