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TUNISIA-SABA
The head of Tunisia's Independent High Authority for Elections, Farouk Bouaskar, announced that candidate Qais Sa'ed won the first round of the presidential elections with 90.69 percent.
At a press conference, Bouaskar pointed out that the turn out of the voters in the inside and outside Tunisia was 28.8 percent.
He added the incumbent president Sa'ed (66 years old) got total of 2 million and 438 thousand and 954 votes, while the candidate al-Ayachi Zamal won 197 thousand and 551 votes (7.35 percent) and the candidate Zuhair Maghzawy got 52 thousand and 903 votes (1.97 percent).
The total number of voters in Tunisia and abroad reached 2 million 808 thousand and 548 voters, according to Bouaskar