In Tunisia, exit polls indicate that academic Kais Saied is heading for a landslide victory in the Presidential runoff, sweeping aside his rival, Nabil Karoui.<br />'' <br />'' Mr Saied is projected to secure nearly 70 per cent of the votes according to two different exit polls. Sixty-one-year-old Saied is an independent candidate with no political experience. Thousands of people took to the streets of the capital Tunis to celebrate Saied's victory.<br />'' <br />'' In his first reaction, Mr Saied thanked the country's young people for turning a new page and vowed to try to build a new Tunisia. The poll, Tunisia's second free Presidential elections since its 2011 revolt, followed the death of President Beji Caid Essebsi in July.<br />