Polls by the private company Sigma Conseil gave a landslide victory with the 89.2% of the votes for the Tunisian president, Kais said, in the elections held this Sunday, state media reported. But this is done under the sign of abstention since participation has fallen to 27.7%.
Imprisoned former MP Ayachi Zammel would remain in 6.9% and third, the pan-Arab leader of the Popular Movement, Zuhair Magzhaui, with 3.9%, whose team questioned in statements to EFE the results “which serve to tamper with the process.”
Zammel’s team also rejected the survey data and is convinced that its candidate will go to the second round, according to a press release. Dozens of supporters showed up to celebrate the president’s re-election with flags in central Tunisia, awaiting the announcement from the electoral body (ISIE). tomorrow Monday the provisional results while the examination continues.
“Irregularities and bad practices” and low participation
The Tunisian Association for the Integrity of Elections and Democracy (ATIDE) assured this Sunday that it had recorded “a series of irregularities and bad practices of varying degrees” in the vote. Participation in the presidential elections this Sunday in Tunisia cup to 27.7% below the 48.98% recorded in the first round of the 2019 elections and only 6% of young people between 18 and 35 years old voted, the electoral body (ISIE) announced today.
More than 9.7 million, with a population of 12 million inhabitants, were called to vote in the third presidential parties which celebrate the countries since the so-called Arab Spring when a process of democratic transition began, which the opposition today considers to be in danger.
In total, 2,704,155 citizens voted in Tunisia while participation abroad reached 16.3%, or 104,903 of the 642,819 voters. The opposition, which demonstrated last Friday in the center of the capital, did not unanimously demand a boycott as in previous elections called by Said despite denounce the lack of transparency and legitimacy.
The Islamist party Ennahda, the first opposition party in Parliament dissolved by Saïd during his coup d’état, offered its activists the freedom to choose between boycott and opposition. Those close to the detained dissidents were betting on support for the former deputy Zammel, the only one to have committed to freeing them, and on the suspension of the 2022 Constitution, approved by referendum with 70% abstention and which put end to the parliamentary system of the transition. , consolidating an ultra-presidential regime.
