Tunisia’s President Saied is poised to win a second term after cracking down on the opposition

Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s incumbent president says he will wait for official results before declaring victory while acknowledging exit polls showing him winning by a landslide. His supporters jubilantly honked and celebrated following Sunday’s vote that President Kais Saied was expected to win after a campaign that saw an unrelenting stream of arrests of his potential challengers. One of the two little-known candidates he was running against was in prison. Much of the opposition boycotted the election. Turnout was only 27.7%.