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Parliamentary elections were held in Tunisia on 26 October 2014. [1] Campaigning started on 4 October 2014. [2] They were the first free regular legislative elections since independence in 1956, and the first elections held following the adoption of the new constitution in January 2014, which created a 217-seat Assembly of the Representatives of the People. [3]
La Presse de Tunisie was founded in 1934 [2] by Henri Smadja, a Tunisian and French Jewish doctor and lawyer, born in Tunisia, who became the owner of the daily newspaper Combat. The paper, based in Tunis, [3] was close to the Constitutional Democratic Rally. [1] Its sister paper is Arabic newspaper Assahafah. [2]
Poster of Chourabi and Ktari at the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists headquarters.. As part of his work with First TV, in September 2014 he decided to leave with photographer Nadhir Ktari for Libya to produce a report, but they were both kidnapped by a militia near the Ajdabiya region on 8 September.
On 25 July 2021, Republic Day, after months of political crisis between President of the Republic, Kais Saied and the Assembly of the Representatives of the People, thousands of protesters demanded the latter's dissolution and a change of regime. [3]
2022 Tunisian constitutional referendum 25 July 2022 Do you support the new draft constitution for the Tunisian republic? The official logo of the Tunisian constitutional referendum 2022 Website www.isie.tn Results Choice Votes % Yes 2,607,884 94.60% No 148,723 5.40% Valid votes 2,756,607 97.40% Invalid or blank votes 73,487 2.60% Total votes 2,830,094 100.00% Registered voters/turnout ...
Former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has maintained Tunisia's long-time policy of seeking good relations with the West, while playing an active role in Arab and African regional bodies.
The 217 members of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People were elected by closed list proportional representation in 33 multi-member constituencies (27 in Tunisia and 6 representing Tunisian expatriates).
Tunisian Ba'ath Movement (حركة البعث تونس, Mouvement Baath de Tunisie) Tunisian Movement for Freedom and Dignity; Tunisian National Front; Tunisian Nationalist Party [4] Tunisian Pirate Party; Voice of the People of Tunisia; Wafa Movement; Al-Watan Party; Workers' Party (PT), formerly the Tunisian Workers' Communist Party (PCOT)