Tunisia’s President Saied reelected for second term with 90.69% votes

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied, 66, has won Sunday's presidential election in the country by a landslide.

He secured about 90.69 per cent of the total votes cast, the electoral authority, ISIE, said on national television.

ISIE said Saied's opponents — Ayachi Zemmal and Zouhair Maghzaoui — got 7.3 per cent and 1.9 per cent of votes cast, respectively.

The turnout was 28.8 per cent, the lowest since the country’s 2011 revolution in history.

Saied is a Tunisian politician, jurist and retired lecturer of law. He was president of the Tunisian Association of Constitutional Law from 1995 to 2019.

Having worked in various legal and academic roles since the 1980s, Saied joined the 2019 presidential election as an independent social conservative supported by Ennahda and others across the political spectrum.

Running with little campaigning, Saied sought to appeal to younger voters, pledged to combat corruption and reforming the electoral system.