Tunisia sets elections for October

Tunisia’s leader has scheduled the next presidential election for October but did not say if he will seek a second term after five years at the head of the North African nation once seen as a model of democracy for the Arab world.

President Kais Saied set Oct. 6 for the election in a decree issued late Tuesday, according to a statement from the presidency. Saied’s first term ends on Oct. 23.

The election will be voters’ first chance to…