Tunis: The turnout for elections held for Tunisian expatriates has been high, particularly in Europe, officials have said.
Unlike their compatriots back home who have only today to cast their ballots, the voting has been open for three days — Thursday, Friday and yesterday — in 437 stations designated in embassies and diplomatic missions in 45 countries for the 338,712 Tunisians living abroad.
"The turnout has been high in France, especially Paris, Marseilles, Germany and Italy," Mohammad Fadl Mahfoudh, Ridha Tarkhani and Nabeel Bafoun, from the independent commission supervising the elections, told reporters in Tunis. "We did not have any serious violations and the claims ... that the polling stations in Algeria, Lebanon mad Qatar had been shut down are not true... the heads of the polling stations in Beirut and Doha had been replaced after it was discovered that they were not neutral," they said.
