According to a statement posted on “Facebook” by the Tunisian presidency, Saied discussed “the subject of manipulating the recommendations to elect members of the House of People’s Representatives” at his meeting with Prime Minister Najla Bouden on Friday.
What was the statement’s content?
• “The President of the Republic stressed the need to apply the law equally to all parties, to end the corrupt money phenomenon, and to amend the election decree, particularly after it was discovered that a number of local council members did not fulfil the obligations imposed on them by law and that the testimonies became a market where debts are sold. buy, also.
• “Saeed stressed that if the current legislation did not accomplish its objectives, then it is our sacred national duty to amend it in order to lessen this shameful phenomenon, particularly since research has shown that those who have been detained and reported to justice intend to confuse the public and sow chaos out of fear. from the actual popular will that will be produced on December 17th by the voting machines.
The gathering of 400 recommendations, equally split between men and women, with a definition of signature and 25% of them for young people under 35, which is one of the requirements for standing in the future elections under the new law, has caused controversy in Tunisia.
The endorsers must be from the same constituency as the candidate’s registered voters.
The Independent High Authority for Elections disclosed on Thursday that “some individuals seeking to run attempted to gain recommendations unlawfully, either by utilising public means and resources, or by paying cash or in-kind consideration to obtain these recommendations.”
Tunisia’s election campaigning begins on October 17 and runs through October 24.
Before the elections in Tunisia, it was stated that we needed to halt the “disgraceful phenomenon.”
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