Numerous opposition parties boycotted the vote.
The controversial constitutional reform is going through the roof in Tunisia, because according to door-to-door polls, a total of 92.3 percent of the voters gave their support to it.
According to the country’s election commission, the turnout was 27.5 percent. The vote did not set a lower limit for how high the turnout should be in order for the constitution to pass.
Numerous opposition parties boycotted the vote. According to critics, the reform takes the country towards the president Kais Saiedin autocracy and crumbles the fragile democracy achieved in the country during the Arab Spring.
On the day of the referendum, it was a year since the president dismissed the government. Since then, he has tightened his grip on, for example, the judiciary.
The low voter turnout is at least partly due to the fact that citizens living in the shadow of the country’s economic crisis are not very interested in the draft constitution. For example, youth unemployment rose by more than 40 percent in Tunisia last year.
Sitting on a raft with her husband and teenage son on the beach in the town of La Marsa The same– woman described her feelings about Tunisian politicians.
– I’m frustrated with all of them. I’d rather enjoy this hot day than go vote, he told the news agency Reuters.
On the same lines, there was someone standing in front of a cafe in Tunis, the capital Samir Slimane. The man stated that he has no interest in voting.
– I have no hope of change. Kais Saied won’t change anything. He just wants to have all the power.