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By Al Jazeera
Oct 8, 2024

Tunisia’s Saied wins presidential election, electoral commission says

Saied takes 90.7 percent of the vote on 28.8 percent turnout, commission says.

Tunisian President Kais Saied has won a second term in the presidential election, the electoral commission says.

Saied won 90.7 percent of the vote, the head of the Independent High Authority for Elections of Tunisia (ISIE) said on national television on Monday.

The ISIE said voter turnout stood at 28.8 percent in Sunday’s election, the lowest since the 2011 revolution. The commission’s spokesman, Mohamed Tlili Mansri, said earlier that it was expecting it to be about 30 percent.

Saied, 66, ran against two rivals, ally-turned-critic and Chaab Party leader Zouhair Maghzaoui and Ayachi Zammel, a businessman who was seen as posing a challenge to Saied’s re-election until he was jailed last month.