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Major Tunisian political parties and organisations have rejected the results of a referendum on a controversial new constitution giving broad powers to President Kais Saied, with the global human rights organisation Amnesty International also condemning the new charter. The constitution, described as ‘authoritarian’ by critics, places the president in command of the army, allows him to appoint a government without parliamentary approval, and makes him virtually impossible to remove from office. Final results showed that 94.6% of voters voted “yes” to the constitution, but with only 30.5% of el…