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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Tunisians Snub Poll on Reforms as Economic Crisis Bites

Tunisian volunteers explain to citizens how to fill out an online public poll, on March 14, 2022in the capital Tunis FETHI BELAID AFP

Tunisian President Kais Saied, who last year grabbed power in what critics labelled a coup, has now asked voters for their political views -- but days before the online poll closes, fewer than six percent had taken part.

Most people in the small North African country are more concerned with food shortages, unemployment and financial woes than in joining in the process to help rewrite the constitution.

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