polls have just closed as tunisians elect a new parliament today s election comes just weeks after the 1st round of presidential elections where voters turned their backs on traditional parties in favor of independent candidates around $15000.00 candidates are contesting 217 seats in the country s parliament the legislature has been dominated by the islamists and that cup party is ruling in alliance with the secular party tunis high unemployment and a lack of public services are few cooling discontent. and journalist sara mercer joins us now from the tunisian capital sara thanks for being here polls we understand it just closed there were fears that this election would see people stayed home to disillusioned has that affected the turnout in fact just such a mix of that from the numbers we have so far is that it s not. yet a looks as the turnout will be approximately like 3 weeks ago in the presidential
elections around 4045 percent which is relatively low and it turned out just specially not don t trust the last 4 titians i mean more of even though they follow a lot. from a lot of today they don t trust the electrician s neither the old ones norman newcomers it looks as if the turnout will be no good and when can we expect final results in one way might we see a new government actually being formed. following our results most likely to be announced on wednesday where you are staying for the government this might actually take some time nobody expects a player might majority some of the coalition hawks will type along on and it will also come out of the presidential election come to 2nd round i don t take next. sarah mercian tunis thanks very much. iraq s prime minister has announced social measures designed to end the deadly