{"id":14207,"date":"2014-05-02T10:09:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T10:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tunisian-assembly-approves-electoral-law\/"},"modified":"2014-05-02T10:09:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T10:09:34","slug":"tunisian-assembly-approves-electoral-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tunisian-assembly-approves-electoral-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisian Assembly Approves Electoral Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Tunisia’s interim parliament has taken one of the last steps towards the country becoming a full democracy by approving a new electoral law.}}<\/p>\n

The move allows officials to set dates for legislative and presidential polls.<\/p>\n

It comes three years after the popular uprising that forced Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to step down as president.<\/p>\n

Debate in the National Constituent Assembly was clouded by disagreement over whether officials who served under Ben Ali should be banned from office.<\/p>\n

The exclusion measure was eventually rejected by a single vote, however, with the Islamist Ennahda party – which won the elections for the NCA in 2011 – opposing it.<\/p>\n

Its main rival, Nidaa Tounes, is led by a former parliamentary speaker under Ben Ali.<\/p>\n

“The rejection of political expulsion sends a strong message that our revolution continues, without revenge,” Khemais Kessila of Nidaa Tounes was quoted as saying. “It shows that we are avoiding any divisions.”<\/p>\n

Ennahda formed the first post-Ben Ali government but handed over power to caretaker Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa at the start of the year after the new constitution was approved, under an agreement to end a political crisis triggered by the assassination of two opposition leaders.<\/p>\n

Mr Jomaa has ruled himself out as a candidate in the forthcoming elections, for which officials have said they will need between six and eight months to prepare.<\/p>\n

One clause of the electoral law imposes male-female parity in party lists.<\/p>\n

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