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After the "poor" turnout for the legislative elections in Tunisia.. Will the rug of legitimacy be removed from Qais Saeed?

2022-12-19T02:10:56.429Z


The turnout in the legislative elections that Tunisia witnessed stopped all parties related, from near or far, to the worsening crisis in the country. How do you understand the weak participation in the Tunisian legislative elections?


The turnout in the legislative elections that Tunisia witnessed stopped all parties related, from near or far, to the worsening crisis in the country.

How do you understand the weak participation in the Tunisian legislative elections?

What are the street messages from boycotting it?

This electoral contest was built on the basis of the constitution, decrees, and decisions drawn up and imposed by President Kais Saied, and in the eyes of many it constituted another station to test the popularity of the July 25 path and the policies that followed.

Saeed's opponents, and even many of his supporters, agreed that the voter turnout was low, although they differed in determining the reasons for that.

In an analysis of the low electoral participation rate, Jawhar bin Mubarak of the National Salvation Front - in his interview with the "Beyond the News" program (18/12/2022) - considered that the issue cannot be explained by normal electoral reluctance, but rather it is a new position.

Ben Mubarak indicated that the comprehensive boycott of the elections is a message from the Tunisian street to express its rejection of what he called the coup, as well as stressing that he is not involved in the path that Saied chose for Tunisia.

On the other hand, lawyer and law researcher Caesar Sayyah stressed that Saeed is a symbol of the state despite all the mistakes that may have been committed in his political path, and this election cannot be taken as a criterion for withdrawing legitimacy from him, considering that this reluctance is a punishment for all political parties and does not concern only the president. Tunisian.

Low turnout

In the context of the participation rates in the Tunisian elections, the head of the Supreme Elections Commission, Farouk Bouaskar, announced that the voter turnout in the legislative elections had reached 8.8%.

While Bouaskar described the turnout as modest, but not ashamed, the Tunisian opposition confirmed that the Tunisians' reluctance to vote delegitimized President Saeed, calling for early presidential elections to get out of the crisis.

Bouaskar also suggested the possibility of organizing a second round of elections in more than 100 constituencies out of a total of 161 constituencies.

The registered voter turnout is the lowest in eight electoral events since the revolution.

For his part, the head of the National Salvation Front, Ahmed Najib al-Shabi, said that the front believes that the voter turnout in the elections did not exceed 2%, and that since today President Saeed has lost his legitimacy, stressing the front's determination to work to isolate the president and hold early presidential elections.

different reactions

In reactions to the legislative elections, Abeer Moussa, head of the Free Destourian Party, called for "announcing the vacancy of the presidency and calling for early presidential elections."

The Ennahda movement commented in a post on the results, saying, "Thank you to the great Tunisian people, and the coup will be overthrown."

Whereas, the opposition Labor Party said that what it described as the very meager participation rate strips all legitimacy from the entire July 25 coup system, as he put it.

As for the Republican Party, it said that the Tunisian people sent a message of rejection of the path of what it called the coup, and the party called on President Saeed to step down from power and make way for a transitional period.

For his part, Abd al-Razzaq al-Khalouli, head of the political bureau of the July 25 movement, which supports Saied, called for early presidential elections.

However, Al-Khalouli saw in his statements that the participation rate does not affect Saeed's legitimacy or legitimacy, indicating that it is not linked to him or his popularity, as he put it.

Source: aljazeera

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