Tunisia election: exit polls point to landslide win for 'Robocop' Kais Saied
Source: Agence France-Presse
Tunisia election: exit polls point to landslide win for 'Robocop' Kais Saied
Agence France-Presse
Mon 14 Oct 2019 00.48 BST
Political outsider Kais Saied has thanked the countrys young people for turning a new page in Tunisia after exit polls pointed to a landslide victory for the conservative academic in a presidential runoff with media magnate Nabil Karoui.
In a contest that reflected Tunisias shifting post-revolution political landscape, Saied, an independent, scooped 72.5% of the vote according to the Emrhold exit poll, and 76.9% in the Sigma one more than 40 points ahead of Karoui.
Thousands of people took to the streets of the capital Tunis to celebrate Saieds victory, honking horns and singing the national anthem. Its a historic day: Tunisia is reaping the fruits of the revolution, said Boussairi Abidi, a 39-year-old mechanic. Kais Saied is going to put an end to corruption, he will be a fair president.
The official results are expected onMonday.
In his first reaction, Saied thanked the countrys young people and vowed to try to build a new Tunisia. About 90% of 18- to 25-year-olds voted for Saied, according to estimates by the Sigma polling institute, compared with 49.2% of voters over 60.
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