President of the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) Farouk Bouasker announced that the turnout for the local council elections had reached 5.18% by midday.
He added that the number of voters who had turned out at the polls Sunday morning had stood at 470,395 out of a total of 9,080,987 on the electoral register.
Some 120,208 of those who voted by midday were women (55.25%) and 350,187 were men (45.74%).
As for the breakdown of these voters by age group, some 43.15% (72,588 voters) were young people aged under 35, 60.45% (241,505 voters) aged between 36 and 60 and 97.38% (183,302 voters) were seniors aged over sixty.
At a second press briefing, held Sunday afternoon at the media centre in the El Menzah sports complex, the ISIE president called on voters, particularly young people, to fulfill their civic duty to elect their representatives to local councils.
Bouaskar underlined that the selection of candidates with disabilities by sortition had been carried out transparently and had just been
concluded in the various regional authorities, adding that the results would be announced officially and that it would be possible to contact the regional authorities to obtain the names of the winners in each constituency.
He specified that unlike what had been indicated in certain reports, all polling centres and stations had opened their doors at 8 a.m., asserting that no infringements had been reported during the sortition for candidates with disabilities, which had been conducted in the presence of the heads of the regional authorities, members of the IRIE and bailiffs.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse