30 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The leader of the opposition National Salvation Front, Ahmed Neyib Chebi, has called on the Tunisian president, Kais Saied, to leave office after the “fiasco” of the second round of parliamentarians, again marked by an abstention rate of close to 90 percent. .
Chebi stressed after the vote, boycotted by the opposition, that the participation rate, which is around eleven percent, “shows that very few support Saied’s process,” according to the Tunisian state news agency, TAP.
Thus, it has affected that the low participation in the elections, which in the first round was below ten percent, represents a “popular disavowal” of the initiatives carried out by Saied since in July 2021 he decided to arrogate all powers after dissolving the Government and suspending Parliament, later dissolved.
Saied has since promoted a series of measures to reform Tunisia’s political system, including a constitutional referendum, approved amid an opposition boycott, which reinforces the powers of the Presidency. The opposition has denounced an authoritarian drift of the president and has demanded his resignation.
For this reason, he has stressed that the president must “leave office immediately” after these “catastrophic results”, while reiterating that the solution to the crisis requires “a new political leadership.”
For his part, the president of the Tunisian electoral commission, Faruk Buasker, has revealed the filing of lawsuits for defamation and dissemination of false information on social networks against various opponents who have criticized the body, as reported by the Tunisian station Mosaique FM. .
Some 262 candidates, including just 34 women, are running for 131 seats in an election that saw only 11.2 percent of registered voters turnout in the first round last month and amid calls for comprehensive political reform of the current system imposed by said.
