Saied takes 90.7 percent of the vote on 28.8 percent turnout, commission states.
Published On 7 Oct 2024
Tunisian President Kais Saied has won a 2nd term in the governmental election, the electoral commission states.
Saied won 90.7 percent of the vote, the head of the Independent High Authority for Elections of Tunisia (ISIE) stated on nationwide tv on Monday.
The ISIE stated citizen turnout stood at 28.8 percent in Sunday’s election, the mostaffordable consideringthat the 2011 transformation. The commission’s representative, Mohamed Tlili Mansri, stated earlier that it was anticipating it to be about 30 percent.
Saied, 66, ran versus 2 competitors, ally-turned-critic and Chaab Party leader Zouhair Maghzaoui and Ayachi Zammel, a businessperson who was seen as positioning a difficulty to Saied’s re-election till he was imprisoned last month.
Saied, in power giventhat 2019, has administered over a wave of arrests targeting the political opposition and other critics.
Tunisia for years hadactually been hailed as the just relative success story of the 2011 “Arab Spring” uprisings for presenting a competitive, though flawed democracy after years of hardline guideline characterised by huma