The head of the Tunisian High Authority for Elections, Farouk Bouaskar, said the preliminary results of the legislative elections which took place on Saturday would be announced on Monday.
Bouaskar had said that more than 800,000 voters cast their votes two hours before polling stations closed, with the turnout rate exceeding 8%.
Polling stations closed pending the results of the competition of 1.58 candidates for 161 seats in the House of Representatives, including 122 women.
The voting process took 10 hours. Three hours after polling stations closed, the number of voters who voted reached 656,000, according to the announcement by the head of the Supreme Electoral Commission, Farouk Bouaskar. A commission source at the time suggested that the number of voters could reach one million.
More than 9 million voters were invited to the polls to choose their representatives in the next legislative authority from 1058 candidates, while voting abroad began on Thursday, with a limited turnout.
In a tour of some polling stations in the capital Tunis, Al-Arabiya.net monitored a limited turnout, mostly elderly and men, while the participation rate of young people and women was weak, despite the high number of candidate competitors, in anticipation of an increase in the participation rate during the evening period.
The voter, Muhammad Ali Al-Zawari, called on all voters to go to polling stations near them before they close to do their duty and choose who represents them in Parliament and who defends their rights, adding in a statement to Al -Arabiya .net that “the next parliament will not have great powers, but will have a role in public affairs and an impact on the future of the country”.
In the same context, some observers who supervised the electoral process revealed that some irregularities were monitored and attempts to rescue people and influence voters were recorded in some polling stations.
The president was Qais Saeed He called on Tunisians to vote en masse In these elections, and in order not to miss this opportunity “to make a new history and block those who have looted the country”.
These elections are conducted according to A new electoral law passed by President Qais Said in mid-September, instead of the 2014 electoral law, the number of seats in Parliament will be reduced to 161, according to which Tunisians will choose their candidates on an individual basis instead of choosing a party list, which the opposition rejects and believes to attribute a minor role to parties and reduce their political representation.
And the parliament that will be elected today will have limited powers According to the new constitution, approved by popular referendum on 25 July, which attributes greater and broader powers to the President of the Republic.
