Tunisian polling stations were quiet on Sunday for run-offs in a parliamentary election that drew only 11% turnout in December's first round, an outcome critics of the president said undermined his claims of public support for sweeping political change.
A voter casts his ballot at a polling station during the second round of the parliamentary election in Tunis, Tunisia January 29, 2023.Tunisian polling stations were quiet on Sunday for run-offs in a parliamentary election that drew only 11% turnout in December’s first round, an outcome critics of the president said undermined his claims of public support for sweeping political change.
The electoral commission said that turnout stood at 4.7% at 11am on Sunday, three hours after polls opened. In December it had announced turnout of about 3% at 10am. “I’m not interested in elections that do not concern me,” said Nejib Sahli, 40, passing a polling station in the Hay Ettahrir district of Tunis shortly before voting was due to begin.
President Kais Saied has decreed the new, mostly powerless, parliament as part of a reconfigured presidential system that he introduced after shutting down the previous parliament in 2021 and assuming broad control over the state.
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