Holding local council elections in Tunisia under the shadow of party sanctions

According to the international group Tasnim news, in the local council elections, 7 thousand 205 candidates from people Independent and supporting parties of Tunisian President Qais Said are competing with each other to win 2,155 seats in these councils.

Voting was opened at 8:00 AM (local time) for 9,79,000 Tunisians eligible to vote, and the voting process continues until 6:00 PM today. This voting does not include Tunisians living abroad.

According to Anatolia news agency, since 2022 when the Tunisian constitution was amended, this is the first election of local councils in Tunisia is considered.

According to the new law, by electing the members of the local councils, these councils elect the members of the provincial councils, then the provincial councils “Supreme Council” provinces” and this council will act as the second chamber of the parliament.

Legislative structure in some countries is bicameral. These assemblies are separate from each other, the lower assembly is called the House of Commons or Representatives, the second chamber and… and the upper assembly is called the Upper Assembly, the Senate and the first chamber.

Council elections are the last stage of “Qais Said’s” measures to change the political and governance structure of Tunisia. The political parties and groups that supported and participated in this election are the supporters of the Tunisian president, including the Nasseriya Party, the Tunisian Forward Movement, the People’s Movement and the July 25 Party.

Meanwhile, the opposition parties of Qais Saeed boycotted the local council elections in Tunisia and announced: holding these elections is invalid because they were held based on illegal measures.

National Salvation Front (the largest coalition consisting of the Islamist Ennahda party and 5 opposition political parties of Qais Saeed), the left-wing Labor Party, the Republican Party and the liberal Afaq Tunis party, among other political organizations who boycotted today’s elections.

Political parties and organizations opposed to the president of Tunisia, his actions in dissolving the parliament and changing the constitution of this country They know that it is against the law approved in 2014 (the first constitution after the 2011 revolution), but his supporters believe that Qais Saeed’s actions are aimed at correcting the course of the 2011 revolution (overthrow the dictatorial regime of Ben Ali).

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