22-11-2024 02:05 PM Jerusalem Timing

Tunisia Assembly Adopts Election Law

Tunisia Assembly Adopts Election Law

Tunisia’s interim parliament on Thursday approved a new electoral law to govern legislative and presidential polls due to be held by the end of 2014.

Tunisia's interim parliament on Thursday approved a new electoral law to govern legislative and presidential polls due to be held by the end of 2014.

Three years after the country's revolution, the law was passed by 132 votes in favour, 11 against and nine abstentions in the 217-member National Constituent Assembly.