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Tunisia approves new constitution in vote with low turnout
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TUNIS, 28 July 2022, (TON): Tunisia has approved a new constitution granting unchecked powers to the office of President Kais Saied, the electoral board said, after a poorly attended referendum in which voters overwhelmingly backed the document.
Saied’s rivals accused the electoral board controlled by Saied of “fraud” and said his referendum, held Monday, had failed.
Electoral commission head Farouk Bouasker told “journalists the body announces the acceptance of the new draft constitution for the Republic of Tunisia, based on preliminary results, with 94.6 percent of valid ballots voting yes, on 30.5 percent turnout.”
Monday’s vote came a year to the day after the president sacked the government and suspended parliament in a dramatic blow to the only democracy to have emerged from the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings.
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