Tunisia’s president wins landslide second term after cracking down on opponents

Farouk Bouasker, president of the Independent High Authority for Elections, announced Kais Saied’s victory in a press conference in Tunis. Photograph: Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty Images

Tunisia’s president, Kais Saied, has secured a second five-year term with a landslide victory, although the election had one of the lowest turnouts in the north African country’s history.

The Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) declared on Monday evening that Saied had won 90.7% of the vote in Sunday’s election, on a turnout of 27.7%.