Demonstrators chant slogans throughout a protest to demand the implementation of an administrative courtroom ruling that reinstates three different main candidates within the presidential race, close to the Electoral Fee headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia September 2, 2024. | Picture credit score: Reuters
Tunisia’s electoral fee on Monday (2 September 2024) rejected an administrative courtroom ruling reinstating three candidates within the presidential election, reinforcing opposition fears that the fee was making an attempt to favour incumbent chief Kais Saied.
In defiance of the best judicial physique, the fee permitted solely the candidacies of President Saied and two others, Zouhair Magzhaoui and Ayachi Zammel, for the October 6 elections. The electoral marketing campaign will start on September 14, in keeping with the fee.
The choice might shake the credibility of the vote and deepen a political disaster that has been escalating since 2021, when Saied tightened his grip on all powers and started ruling by decree in a transfer the opposition describes as a coup.
Final week, the executive courtroom, the best judicial physique that decides electoral disputes, reinstated three main candidates, Mondher Znaidi, Abdel Latif Mekki and Imed Daimi, after the electoral fee rejected their utility for candidacy.
Tunisian constitutional regulation professors say the electoral fee should implement the executive courtroom’s resolution because it stands, or the election will lose credibility altogether.
