Tunisia Voter Turnout Nears 40%: Official

Voter turnout in Tunisia's presidential elections, which kicked off earlier Sunday, has neared 40 percent in 4,000 polling stations across the country as of 1pm local time (12pm GMT), member of the country's electoral commission Kamal al-Tujani said.



Head of the commission Chafik Sarsar had said earlier that domestic voter turnout in the presidential elections had reached 11.85 percent as of 11am local time (10pm GMT).



Voter turnout abroad reached 18.61 percent as of 11am local time (10am GMT), according to Sarsar.



Polls opened at 8am local time (07: 00 GMT) with nearly 5.2 million people being eligible to cast their ballots in a vote billed as the first free presidential election in the country that sparked the Arab Spring uprisings three years ago.



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