Tunisians shun vote for powerless new parliament ...Kuwait

Tunisians on Saturday overwhelmingly boycotted an election for a new parliament which will have virtually no authority following a power grab by President Kais Saied in the birthplace of the Arab Spring. Electoral board president Farouk Bouasker said that by close of polls at 6:00 pm (1700 GMT), just 8.8 per cent of the nine-million-strong electorate had cast votes. That would be the lowest participation in any poll since the revolution. Opposition groups boycotted the election, saying it was part of a "coup" against the only democracy to have emerged from the 2011 uprisings across the region. Bouasker acknowledged turnout was "modest" but said it could be explained

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