Tunisia (agencies)
Yesterday morning, Tunisians went to the polling stations to complete the election of local council representatives in the second round of elections, which will later form the first nucleus for choosing representatives of the Council of Regions and Regions, which is the second chamber of Parliament.
1,558 candidates are competing in the elections to win 779 seats.
In the first round of elections held on December 24, 1,349 deputies won out of a total of 2,434 deputies, and the rest of the deputies must be elected, who will eventually represent 279 local councils.
According to the new constitution drawn up by President Kais Saied in 2022 through a popular referendum after his overthrow of the political regime in 2021, representatives from the local councils will be promoted to a regional council in each state, and then representatives from those regional councils will be promoted to the Council of Regions and Regions, which will serve as the second chamber. For Parliament.
In previous statements, Tunisian President Kais Saied considered that “local elections will enable the marginalized and the voiceless to be active and contribute to decision-making.”
He said, “The National Council of Regions and Regions will represent all Tunisians and will be close to the citizens in the first unit, which is the deanship, where the elected will be a member of the local council and then in the Council of Regions and Regions until the required integration is achieved between all components of the people and all regions.”
These elections are the first of their kind in Tunisia, and the last episode in the process of installing the new governance institutions emerging from the actions of President Kais Saied on July 25, 2021, after the referendum on a new constitution on July 25, 2022, and holding early legislative elections in December of the same year.
Tunisia held a referendum on the constitution on July 25, 2022, then held two sessions of legislative elections on December 17, 2022 and January 29, 2023, from which a parliament of 153 members emerged after President Kais Saied had frozen the powers of the previous parliament as part of his procedures on July 25, 2021, before dissolving it in March 30, 2022.
Last September, Tunisian President Kais Saied announced, in a speech broadcast by the Tunisian presidency on its official Facebook page, that local elections in the country would be held on December 24, 2023.
These are the first elections for local councils in Tunisia, given that the structure of these councils was new in the 2022 constitution.
For the first time, the elections will produce local councils that will later elect “regional councils” that will choose “regional councils,” according to which the “Supreme Council of Regions and Regions” will be formed, which will serve as the second chamber of Parliament.
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