Tunisia opposition accuses elections board of ‘fraud’
Tunis, Tunisia – (AFP):
Tunisia’s main opposition alliance on Tuesday accused President Kais Saied’s electoral board of falsifying turnout figures, saying his referendum on a new constitution had “failed.”
Tunisians voted on Monday on a draft charter that would give the president unchecked powers, a year after Saied sacked the government and froze parliament in a dramatic blow against the country’s democracy.
The electoral board, ISIE, said after polls closed that some 27.5 percent of the country’s 9.3 million voters had cast ballots.
But Ahmed Nejib Chebbi, head of the National Salvation Front that includes Saied’s main rivals, said the figures were “inflated and don’t fit with what observers saw on the ground” across Tunisia.
Chebbi said the only source of legitimacy for the Tunisian government was the 2014 constitution.
This document was a hard-won compromise between various political forces following the 2011 revolt that overthrew dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali three years earlier.
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