TUNIS, Tunisia — Around 2,458,985 Tunisian voters participated in the referendum on the constitution suggested by President Kais Saied. The total number of registered voters amounted to 8,929,665. Thus, only 27.54% of the registered voters participated according to records of the Independent High Authority for the Elections taken after the closing of polling stations July 24.

In a statement to Tunisian state TV following the referendum process, Director of the Sigma Konsai Foundation Hassan al-Zarkouni confirmed that preliminary estimates indicated that 92.3% voted for the draft constitution compared to 7.7% who voted against it.

Zarkouni clarified that the estimates indicate that 25% voted while 75% abstained; 21% of the 75% actively boycotted the referendum while 54% abstained for other reasons, and 23% of the total 25% of voters voted yes and 2% voted no.

Immediately after the opinion poll was published, hundreds of Saied's supporters flocked to Habib Bourguiba Avenue in the center of the capital to celebrate, chanting slogans such as, "The people want to purify the nation" and "Game over  … sovereignty to the people."