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tunisians are showing little inclination towards the Parliamentary elections that actually held in the country on Saturday this will tighten president kais saeed's grip on power most political parties have boycotted these polls announcing them as a culmination of a march to one-man rule by the president voters are choosing a parliament largely defact by a new constitution approved with the low turnout in a July referendum that is engineered by Saeed to shift Tunisia back towards the presidential system but the turnout seemed much lower than in most previous elections since the 2011 Arab Spring Revolution which shook off a dictatorship and ushered in democracy in the country the official electoral commission whose members are appointed by Saeed said about three percent of the nine million eligible voters had cost their ballots two hours after the polling stations opened battling years of economic hardships motors have grown Jaded by years of political dysfunction we want to see an impro