Amal Hilali - Tunisia

The winner of the presidential election, Qais Said, won a landslide victory over his rival Nabil Karoui with a record vote of 72.71% compared to 27.29% according to the official results announced by the Independent Electoral Commission on Monday, gaining, according to observers, a popular legitimacy that no Tunisian president has ever preceded.

The number of voters for Said reached 2 million and 777 thousand out of a total of 7.5 million registered voters, a number that exceeded the percentage of voters of the late President Beji Kaid Essebsi in 2014, which reached one million and 700 thousand votes.

The number of voters for the new inhabitant of Carthage also exceeded the number of those who voted in the recent legislative elections, which amounted to about one million and 750 thousand voters, so that Qais Said to gain legitimacy through the Fund, which may, according to many, to the hardship of seeking a parliamentary belt to support it.

In contrast, the candidate of the Heart of Tunisia party, Nabil Karoui, received 1.4 million votes, according to official results.

According to official preliminary figures published by the electoral commission, Kais Said's voter turnout exceeded 90%, a percentage that reminded Tunisians of tyranny with deposed President Ben Ali, but the difference this time is that Said got it in a democratic way.

The governorate of Tataouine in southern Tunisia scored the highest vote for candidate Kais Said to reach 96.09%, knocking out the knockout blow against his rival Nabil Karoui, who received only 3.91% of the vote.

Said was able to defeat his opponent in his home country and his hometown in the governorate of Bizerte (northern Tunisia) by obtaining 62.88% compared to 37.12% for his opponent.

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Ability to assemble
The Secretary General of the Democratic Movement Ghazi Chaouachi, that the standard vote for Qais Said at the expense of his opponent Nabil Karoui acquired a punitive dimension in which the Tunisians wanted to punish the corrupt system and corrupt political money represented by the person of the villager, as he put it.

Chaouachi acknowledged Said's ability to bring together Tunisians of all political backgrounds around himself, from far right to far left, partisans and independents, justifying their fear for the future of the country's democratic path to fall under the clutches of the mafia and corrupt lobbies.

He pointed out that the Tunisians elected the man by a large majority because they found in it the qualities that did not entrust it in other politicians, the most important hand cleanliness and honesty in saying and not to claim power.

He called on the leader in the new mainstream to enter with full force in the battle of state-building and reform of economic and social conditions and build a strong and just state.

He also called on him to pick up the messages of Tunisians who revolted against what he called the "Sistam" (the pre-election political system).

Thousands of Tunisians gathered in the capital to celebrate the victory of Qais Said (Anatolia)

The return of the spirit of the revolution
The singing of thousands of Tunisians on Al-Thawra Street last night and the slogans of the youth throats recalled the spirit of the revolution and its flicker, which was almost extinguished by what some describe as the disastrous performance of successive governments, and the loss of confidence in the entire political class.

For his part, sociologist Sami Brahm re-obtained Said votes record rates for what he described as the sagging of the political class, which was apparent - according to him - during the television debate, which competed Said and the villager.

He pointed out that the debate in its symbolic dimension was not between two people as much as between two moral references, the first for the image of the clean and clean man and free of any political profanity, and the second for the image of the next candidate from a corrupt political system and corrupt media.

Brahman did not hide his fascination with the nature of the young people who came down to celebrate the thousands with the victory of Qais Sa'id in the center of the capital, which, according to him, does not belong to any political or ideological trend.

He concluded by saying, "I was stopped in Al-Thawra Street yesterday, the return of that famous boy with his cage in 2011, who had revealed his disappointment in the political class and his return now is a return to the spirit of the revolution again."

It is noteworthy that the candidate Nabil Karoui, who refused yesterday in a television appearance to acknowledge his defeat or congratulate his winning rival, published today an official statement congratulating Qais Said, expressing his readiness and his party "the heart of Tunisia" to deal with him for the benefit of the nation.