Low Turnout for Tunisia's Parliamentary Election: Tunisia
He added that the age group 50 years and over has the highest turnout, 38.54%, while the lowest turnout , was recorded among young people aged between 18 and 25 years.
Responding to criticism by journalists and civil society observers on a"censorship of information" in the polling stations, Farouk Bouaskar replied that there was no restriction on the work of journalists, reporting however some isolated cases. For his part, the official spokesperson of the electoral authority, Tlili Mansri, said that the ISIE unveils the figures in a transparent manner, and that there are no instructions to prevent the heads of polling stations to give information, except that the heads of polling centers are overwhelmed by the volume of work and that sometimes the information is not accessible to them.
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