The present president leads with 89.2 % of the votes and in Sunday’s election voter turnout was 28 %.
Tunisian President Kais Saied is on observe to win the presidential election with 89.2 % of the vote, in response to an exit ballot broadcast on state tv, solidifying Saied’s rule after taking energy in the past. three years.
Tunisia’s Impartial Excessive Authority for Elections (ISIE) will announce the official outcomes of the elections on Monday night.
Saied, 66, was operating towards two rivals, together with his former ally turned main critic of the Chaab Occasion, Zouhair Maghzaoui, and Ayachi Zammel, a businessman who was seen as a significant risk to Saied’s re-election till he was imprisoned final month.
Based on the exit ballot, Maghzaoui, 59, received 3.9 % of the vote and Zammel, 47, 6.9 %.
The ISIE mentioned voter turnout was 27.7 % in Sunday’s vote. Junta spokesman Mohamed Tlili Mansri beforehand mentioned they anticipated it to be round 30 %.
Senior figures within the nation’s most distinguished political events, which largely oppose Saied, have confronted jail phrases on numerous fees and haven’t publicly endorsed any of the three candidates on the poll.
Among the many jailed opposition figures is Rached Ghannouchi, chief of the opposition Ennahda get together, which dominated politics after the 2011 “Arab Spring” protests to overthrow President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Based on human rights teams, since 2019, when Saied was elected, the president has undone democratic beneficial properties for the nation that had been secured by means of the revolution.
Saied has rejected the criticism, arguing that his actions had been to struggle a “corrupt elite” and “traitors.”
Political tensions rose in Tunisia forward of the election after an electoral fee appointed by the president disqualified three candidates amid protests from opposition and civil society teams.
On the identical time, Tunisia is experiencing weak financial development, excessive inflation and unemployment, which has additionally sparked protests.
Final week, lawmakers loyal to Saied stripped the executive courtroom of its authority over election disputes.
The courtroom is seen because the nation’s final unbiased judicial physique after Saied dissolved the Supreme Judicial Council and dismissed a number of judges in 2022.
In 2021, Saied dissolved the elected parliament and rewrote the structure in a transfer the opposition known as a coup.
The rewritten structure was put to a referendum and handed with a voter turnout of solely 30 %. The January runoff for the brand new parliament created by Saied with that structure solely achieved an 11 % voter turnout.
