Choosers in a vote in Tunisia have overwhelmingly backed a new constitution giving President Kais Saied nearly total powers but with only over a quarter of eligible choosers sharing, an exit bean and electoral board said, amid a boycott by opposition parties.
The bean by Sigma Conseil late on Monday said92.3 percent of choosers in the vote supported the new constitution, which with no minimal participation rate is now set to come law. Turnout was 25 percent, the exit bean showed.
Tunisia’s indigenous vote saw at least27.5 percent turnout, the electoral board said.
Speaking after polling closed in Tunisia, the board principal Farouk Bouaskar said choosers had had a” meeting with history” and that a” veritably respectable number” had cast ballots.
Further powers to Saied
Opposition parties transacted the vote, saying it dismantles the republic Tunisia introduced after its 2011 revolution and could start a slide back towards authoritarianism.
The new constitution gives the chairman power over both the government and bar while removing checks on his authority and weakening the congress.
Saied has said his moves were demanded to save Tunisia from times of political palsy and profitable recession under a 2014 constitution that resolve power between the congress and chairman.
His original moves against the congress appeared monstrously popular with Tunisians, as thousands swamped the thoroughfares to support him, but with little progress in addressing dire profitable problems, that support may have waned.
The smallest turnout of any public election since the 2011 revolution, which touched off the Arab Spring, was 41 percent in 2019 for the congress that Saied has dissolved.
The chairman’s opponents have questioned the integrity of a vote conducted by an electoral commission whose board Saied replaced this time, and with smaller independent spectators than for former Tunisian pates.
