MADRID 11 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) of Tunisia has ratified this Friday the re-election of the Tunisian president, Kais Saied, in last Sunday’s presidential elections with 90.69 percent of the votes and a participation rate of 28, 8 percent.
The president of the ISIE, Faruk Buaskar, presented this Friday at a press conference the final results of the elections in which the leader of the liberal Azimun party, Ayachi Zamel, obtained 7.35 percent of the votes, coming second. .
In third place is the leader of the progressive People’s Movement (Echaab), Zuhair Magzhaui, with 1.97 percent of the votes. Buaskar explained that the candidates have not presented challenges to the results before the Court of Appeals during the established period, as reported by the TAP agency.
Nearly 9.7 million people were called to the polls in the framework of elections marked by the persecution and disqualification of several opponents, including Zamel, arrested and sentenced with three sentences totaling more than a decade in prison.
Tunisia, considered one of the few examples of democratic success after the outbreak of the ‘Arab Spring’, has suffered during the last five years a setback in rights and freedoms that has been attributed to the president, which has led its critics to draw parallels with Zine el Abidine ben Ali, who governed the country from 1987 to 2011, and whose long mandate ended precisely with this revolution.
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