Legislative in Tunisia: few crowds in polling stations in Tunis at midday
Second round of the legislative elections in Tunisia: in a polling station in the capital, January 29, 2023. REUTERS - ZOUBEIR SOUISSI
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The second round of legislative elections takes place this Sunday, January 29, in Tunisia.
Tunisians are invited to elect 161 new deputies.
At the end of the morning, the participation rate was 4.71% according to the body responsible for supervising the ballot.
In the first round, the turnout was just over 11%.
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With our correspondent in Tunis,
Amira Souilem
There is not a lot of enthusiasm on the ground.
Guarded by armed soldiers, this school in Kram, a popular suburb of Tunis, awaits its first voters.
And this Sunday morning, they arrive in dribs and drabs to the point that the assessors have improvised a few football passes in the yard.
They are mainly men, retired men, like Abdelmajid, 70, a retired driver.
“
Voting, I see it as a duty,
he explains to us.
I come because I consider it a duty, yes.
Voting is what allows us to preserve our country.
Since the revolution, I have come to vote in all the polls.
»
Taïeb, 69 and a former civil servant, voted without much conviction: “
I am desperate.
There is no horizon, no future in this country.
We are only stepping back.
This is why I pushed my children to leave Tunisia.
Me, I'm old now, I'm a retiree.
Other than hoping it gets better, there's nothing else we can do.
»
Me, I came to vote because I want our country to calm down and recover, to get back to work.
Tunisia: words of voters, at the microphone of our correspondent
Amira Souilem
Preliminary results are expected on February 1.
After this election, it is the election of an upper chamber called the Council of Regions which should follow without any date having yet been disclosed at this stage.
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