Saied takes 90.7 p.c of the vote on 28.8 p.c turnout, fee says.
Tunisian President Kais Saied has gained a second time period within the presidential election, the electoral fee says.
Saied gained 90.7 p.c of the vote, the top of the Unbiased Excessive Authority for Elections of Tunisia (ISIE) stated on nationwide tv on Monday.
The ISIE stated voter turnout stood at 28.8 p.c in Sunday’s election, the bottom because the 2011 revolution. The fee’s spokesman, Mohamed Tlili Mansri, stated earlier that it was anticipating it to be about 30 p.c.
Saied, 66, ran towards two rivals, ally-turned-critic and Chaab Get together chief Zouhair Maghzaoui and Ayachi Zammel, a businessman who was seen as posing a problem to Saied’s re-election till he was jailed final month.
Saied, in energy since 2019, has presided over a wave of arrests concentrating on the political opposition and different critics.
Tunisia for years had been hailed as the one relative success story of the 2011 “Arab Spring” uprisings for introducing a aggressive, although flawed democracy after a long time of hardline rule characterised by human rights abuses and corruption.
Rights teams say Saied has undone a lot of these democratic positive aspects whereas eradicating institutional and authorized checks on his energy.
Senior figures from the largest events, which largely oppose Saied, have been imprisoned over the previous 12 months, and people events didn’t publicly again any of the three candidates on Sunday’s poll. Different opponents have been additionally barred from operating.
Imprisoned figures embrace Abir Moussi, head of the Free Constitutional Get together, which critics accuse of eager to carry again the federal government that was eliminated in 2011.
A number of different presidential contenders are additionally behind bars, together with Ayachi Zammel, who was sentenced to 12 years in jail on Tuesday on election-related offences.
In 2021, Saied dissolved the elected parliament and rewrote the structure in a transfer the opposition known as a coup.
However Saied has rejected criticism of his actions, saying he’s combating a “corrupt elite” and “traitors”.
In his first feedback since exit polls on Sunday predicted his win, Saied advised state tv: “It is a continuation of the revolution.”
“We are going to construct and can cleanse the nation of the corrupt, traitors and conspirators,” he stated.
