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Tunisian President Kais Saied said the lower voter turnout in the latest round of legislative elections is because parliament now means nothing to Tunisians. Almost 90% did not participate in ...

The preliminary turnout in the second round of the Tunisian legislative elections was 11.3%, the TAP news agency reports citing President of the ISIE, Farouk Bouaskar.

The decision by polling stations in Tunisia not to reveal the turnout for the second part of the legislative election yesterday has been said to contradict the principles of transparency and democr...

Tunis, Jan 29 (EFE).- Tunisians were voting on Sunday in the second round of parliamentary elections that is being boycotted by the opposition. A total of 262 candidates, including only 34 women, are vying for 131 seats in the new parliament. The vote comes almost a year after president Kais Saied dissolved the old legislature …

The head of Tunisias Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) called on Monday for the candidates in the second round of the early legislative election scheduled for 29 January to avoid hat...

Tunisia begins electoral campaign for 2nd round of legislative elections-

The Tunisian Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) yesterday announced that it had received 57 appeals against the preliminary results of the first round of the early legislative elections h...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — An anti-terrorism judge in Tunisia has ordered the imprisonment of former Prime Minister Ali Larayedh, vice-president of the popular Islamist opposition party Ennahdha, days after the country held a legislative election marked by a very low turnout.

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian opposition figures called Sunday for the president’s resignation after disastrous parliamentary elections in which less than 9% of voters cast ballots. The mass voter disavowal was a dramatic development for the country that was the birthplace of the Arab Spring uprisings against autocratic leaders a decade ago — and the only one to emerge from that upheaval with a democratic political system.

Tunisian opposition figures called Sunday for the president’s resignation after disastrous parliamentary elections in which less than 9% of voters cast ballots. The mass voter disavowal was a dramatic development for the country that was the birthplace of the Arab Spring uprisings against autocratic leaders a decade ago — and the only one to emerge…