40.7 C
Delhi
Friday, April 25, 2025

Tunisian Prez Kais Saied re-elected: Preliminary results

Date:

Share post:

Donate-GC-Razorpay

Tunis: Preliminary results showed that Tunisian President Kais Saied has been re-elected for a second term, after winning 90.69 percent of the vote in Sunday’s presidential election, the country’s Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) said here Monday.

“According to preliminary results, Saied received 2,438,954 favorable votes,” ISIE President Farouk Bouasker told a press conference.

“As for the candidate, Ayachi Zammel, he won 7.35 percent of the vote, while the third candidate, Zouhair Maghzaoui, received 1.97 percent of the vote,” Bouasker said.

The final results of the presidential election will be announced by Nov. 9 at the latest, Bouasker said.

Tunisia conducts presidential elections every five years, and the 66-year-old Saied has been in office since his election in 2019.

Related articles

Over 50 people killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza Strip on March 24: Reports

Gaza: The death toll from Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since Thursday morning has reached 52 people,...

Houses of 2 local LeT demolished in south Kashmir

Srinagar: The houses of two Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists, who were believed to be behind the deadly Pahalgam attack on...

J&K: 2 cops injured in Bandipora gunbattle

Srinagar: Two policemen were injured in an ongoing gunbattle in Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said...

UK likely to abandon plans to send troops to Ukraine: Reports

Moscow: The UK is likely to abandon the idea of ​​sending thousands of troops to Ukraine, which was...