Tunisians Snub Vote for Assembly After President’s Power Revamp
An ISIE agent begins counting ballots at a polling station in Tunis on Dec. 17.
Photographer: Yacine Mahjoub/AFP/Getty Images
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About 9% of eligible voters participated in Tunisia’s first parliamentary election since President Kais Saied suspended the previous assembly and revamped power sharing.
Around 803,600 of the 9.1 million potential voters cast their ballots after the vast majority of polling stations closed at 6 pm local time, election commission chief Farouk Bouasker said in comments aired by state television channel al-Wataniya. Male voters accounted for two-thirds the total participants, he added.