Voter turnout in Tunisia’s parliamentary elections appear lower than in previous elections as the North African country faces a dire economic crisis
The early polls are the latest step in a series of exceptional measures taken by President Kais Saied. Opposition parties — including the Salvation Front coalition that the popular Ennahda party is part of — boycotted Saturday's polls because they say the vote is part of President Kais Saied's efforts to consolidate power.
“It's really a stretch to call what occurred today an election,” said Saida Ounissi, a former member of the parliament that the president dissolved in March after years of political deadlock and economic stagnation. In a referendum in July, Tunisians approved a constitution that hands broad executive powers to the president. Saied, who spearheaded the project and wrote the text himself, made full use of the mandate in September, changing the electoral law to diminish the role of political parties.
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