Tunisian political parties present candidates

2011-09-02

Candidates for Tunisia's October 23rd Constituent Assembly elections were introduced by their political parties on Thursday (September 1st), TAP reported. Tunisia's Independent High Electoral Commission (ISIE) required candidates from the country's 105 political parties to have no history of activities within the dissolved Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) or the regime of ousted president Zine El Abdine Ben Ali.

The constituent assembly will be tasked with drafting a new constitution. Of the body's 218 seats, 19 are reserved for Tunisian expatriates.

Source: Magharebia.
Link: http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/newsbriefs/general/2011/09/02/newsbrief-03.