The transitional government of Tunisia has decided to maintain the crucial July 24 election for a Constituent Assembly, against the advice of the electoral commission, which proposed to postpone it until October for technical and logistical reasons, he announced Tuesday, May 24 "The cabinet discussed at length the proposal from the highest authority for the elections and decided to meet the deadline set by the government and the president, that is to say the organization of elections on July 24" said the spokesman of the government, Taieb Baccouche.
"The highest authority has proposed the postponement without discussing with the government," he said. Thus, "the government decides to keep the appointment on 24 July, with a commitment to offer the supreme all means to organize the elections," he added. The president of the supreme independent elections had proposed, Sunday, May 22, the postponement of the October 16 elections to the Constituent Assembly.
"The time will be insufficient to prepare everything necessary for a transparent election," he was therefore justified. "We have no choice," he was assured by recalling that "it is 6000 listing agents, 1 500 registration centers, we must make voter registration, which will take at least one months, it takes 8 000 polling stations and a total of 40,000 polling clerks, etc..
" The question of a postponement of the elections - the first since the fall of Ben Ali - was controversy in recent weeks in Tunisia, in an uncertain environment, between economic difficulties, Spectrum of a terrorist threat on its territory and spillover of the conflict Libyan at its southern border.
Part of the political class, including the Islamist Nahda (Renaissance), voted to maintain the election to July 24, waving the threat of a prolonged period of instability in case of postponement. "The extension of the transitional period would have impacts on the economic, social and security", had said Monday Laraydh Ali, the spokesman of this movement fought hard under Ben Ali, well known to Tunisians and credited by experts the best score in the next election. 
"The highest authority has proposed the postponement without discussing with the government," he said. Thus, "the government decides to keep the appointment on 24 July, with a commitment to offer the supreme all means to organize the elections," he added. The president of the supreme independent elections had proposed, Sunday, May 22, the postponement of the October 16 elections to the Constituent Assembly.
"The time will be insufficient to prepare everything necessary for a transparent election," he was therefore justified. "We have no choice," he was assured by recalling that "it is 6000 listing agents, 1 500 registration centers, we must make voter registration, which will take at least one months, it takes 8 000 polling stations and a total of 40,000 polling clerks, etc..
" The question of a postponement of the elections - the first since the fall of Ben Ali - was controversy in recent weeks in Tunisia, in an uncertain environment, between economic difficulties, Spectrum of a terrorist threat on its territory and spillover of the conflict Libyan at its southern border.
Part of the political class, including the Islamist Nahda (Renaissance), voted to maintain the election to July 24, waving the threat of a prolonged period of instability in case of postponement. "The extension of the transitional period would have impacts on the economic, social and security", had said Monday Laraydh Ali, the spokesman of this movement fought hard under Ben Ali, well known to Tunisians and credited by experts the best score in the next election.
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