There are no violations of the electoral silence. Tunisians are choosing a new president today

Tunisians will go to the polls on Sunday morning to vote in the second and final round of presidential elections, in which candidates Kais Said and Nabil Karoui are contesting. Tunisian voters abroad have been voting since Friday.

The Independent High Electoral Commission said that the preliminary results of the presidential elections will be announced on Monday or Tuesday, and confirmed that there were no violations of the principle of electoral silence, after the two candidates on Friday ended their campaign, which lasted only three days.

The election commission said that the polls abroad - which began Friday - are conducted in conditions described as good until now. The Commission said that participation rates as of 4:00 pm Saturday Tunis time 9.3% of the total voters, and the percentage of Tunisians in the Arab countries reached 20%.

Voters abroad
Some 400,000 Tunisian voters abroad are eligible to vote until the day of voting in the country.

According to the Commission, 66% of voters abroad were men, and the head of the Independent High Electoral Commission Nabil Bfon that the participation rates abroad slightly increased compared to the first round of the presidential and parliamentary elections.

The Independent Electoral Commission has allocated 386 polling stations in 46 countries, and hopes to achieve a higher turnout abroad than in the first round, which was about 20%.

Electoral silence
He added that the Commission has taken all the organizational and logistical measures to be held Sunday in Tunisia in the best circumstances, stressing that the Commission did not monitor any violations of the electoral silence by the campaigns of candidates.

The two candidates, Qais Saeed and Nabil Karawi, ended the propaganda campaigns with a debate organized by state television that lasted for two hours.

Saeed, a 61-year-old university professor and independent candidate, received 18.4 percent of the vote in the first round, which took place on September 16, while Karoui, a 65-year-old businessman, received 15.5 percent. Candidate of the "Heart of Tunisia" party.

It is noteworthy that the powers of the presidency of the Republic in Tunisia has become less than the powers of the Prime Minister under the new constitution adopted in 2014, and the most prominent powers of the President of the country to control public policies in the areas of defense, foreign relations and national security, as well as appointments in military and diplomatic posts.