The number of voters who voted in the constitutional referendum in Tunisia was 2,458,985, with a turnout of 27.54%. This was stated by the president of the Independent Higher Election Authority, Farouk Bouaskar, speaking after the polls closed, saying that the voters had a “meeting with history” and that a “very respectable number” voted. A group of supporters of President Kais Saied marched on the capital’s central Avenue Bourguiba as a sign of victory immediately after the announcement on national television of the results of the exit polls, which gave the yes to 92.3% albeit with a high rate of abstention.
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