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Baatour's candidacy marks "a first which will without doubt be a benchmark in history", his party said.

A lawyer at the Court of Cassation, Tunisia's highest court, the Liberal Party leader presents himself as a defender of LGBT rights.

But ahead of his announcement, a petition signed by 18 groups who campaign for those rights warned his candidacy would represent a "danger" for their communities.

Baatour was jailed for three months in 2013 for "sodomy" with a 17-year-old student, an accusation he has always denied.

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