Polls opened for a parliamentary election in Tunisia on Saturday, a vote boycotted by political parties that see it as capping President Kais Saied's march to one-man rule over a country that shook off dictatorship in 2011.
There were more journalists than voters at the Rue de Marseille polling station in Tunis, which has been packed from early in the day in previous elections held in the post-revolution period.
At another polling station an elderly man who gave his name as Habib said he had only voted despite misgivings because he objected to the calls for a boycott.BOYCOTT, passed with a low turnout in a July referendum, has defanged parliament and shifted power back to the presidential palace in Carthage from which Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali ruled with an iron fist before being ousted in 2011.
Saied has described it as part of a roadmap for ending the chaos and corruption he says afflicted Tunisia under the previous system. But I Watch, a non-governmental watchdog organisation formed after the 2011 revolution, said the new parliament had been "emptied of all powers".
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