Electoral Law Tunisia, Tunisia S Political System From Stagnation To Competition Carnegie Endowment For International Peace

The members of the chamber of deputies are elected by universal free direct and secret suffrage according to the modalities and conditions determined by the electoral law.

Hong kong election nytimes. This amendment to the electoral law comes at a politically sensitive time in tunisia. The president is elected by majority with a second round with the top two finishers if no candidate gets more than 50 of the vote in the first round. When tunisias new constitution was adopted in 2014 that law became unconstitutional yet remained in.

Many politicians have declared their intention to run in the parliamentary and presidential elections that are expected before the end of this year. The elections had originally been planned for 17 and 24 november but were brought forward after the death of incumbent president beji caid essebsi on 25 july to ensure that a new president would take office within 90 days as required by the constitution. Tunisias ennahda movement presented a new bill to the parliament to amend the electoral law stating that parties need to win five percent of votes to reach the parliament.

The president of tunisia is directly elected by universal suffrage for a 5 year term. Under the new amendments potential candidates who resort to political advertising and charitable associations are barred from running to the presidency. Partagez9tweetezpartagez19 partages on tuesday the 18th of june the assembly of the representatives of the people collectively approved new amendments.

Jul 17 2019 tunis tunisia a tunisian constitutional oversight authority upheld electoral law amendments some critics say are designed specifically to end the bid of the presidential campaign front runner. The new law was passed with 128 votes 30 rejections and 14 abstentions. Any voter born of a tunisian father who is at least twenty five years of age on the day of submission of his candidacy is eligible for election to the national parliament.

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The first direct presidential election after the revolution was held in 2014a person can not serve more than two terms as president whether consecutive or not. This would exclude many small political parties rearrange the parties representations and reduce the number of its deputies to record levels. Election electoral law law parliament tunisia.