MUNICIPALES - Les élections municipales auront lieu, a priori, le 26 mars 2017, a annoncé, vendredi, le président de l’Instance supérieure indépendante pour les élections (ISIE), Chafik Sarsar.
Chafik Sarsar, le directeur de l’Institution Supérieure de l’Indépendance des Elections (ISIE), a affirmé aujourd’hui, 24 mars 2016, qu’il est strictement impossible d’organiser les élections municipales au cours du mois d’octobre 2016. Le président de l’ISIE a, par contre, indiqué la possibilité de les organiser courant décembre 2016.
President of the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) Chafik Sarsar Tuesday said the municipal election law needs to be published in the Official Gazette before next April 4 so that elections may be held in October 2016.
“The bill was not yet put officially before the House of People’s Representatives (HPR); it should be brought to the floor as soon as possible,” Sarsar indicated.
Three draft laws organising the next municipal elections will be submitted to the parliament before the end of 2015, Secretary of State in charge of Local Affairs Hédi Majdoub told TAP on Tuesday.
The three texts concern the organic bill related to the regional and municipal elections, the draft law related to the budget of the local communities and the draft law to local authorities code.
Any peaceful demonstration or protest “is contrary to the provisions imposed by the state of emergency,” Minister of the Interior Najem Gharsalli said on Tuesday.
Among the security measures recently adopted, there is the closure until September 14 of Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis city center.
This decision “has no relation with the national march scheduled for September 12 to protest against the economic reconciliation bill,” stressed the Minister of the Interior on the sidelines of the meeting of the national committee for disaster reduction.
“Stepped up efforts are made to establish the national anti-torture authority before the end of 2015, which would make Tunisia the first Arab country and the fourth in Africa to set up such a structure, said President of the Electoral Committee at the House of People’s Representatives (HPR) Badreddine Abdelkefi.
Some 157 civil society organisations are suspected of having ties to terrorist and Takfiri organisations, said Minister in charge of Relations with Constitutional Bodies and Civil Society Kamel Jendoubi.
The activities of 80 additional organisations were suspended and warnings issued for 83 others to regularise their situation, he announced.
Other organisations were dissolved pursuant to a judicial decision, he said.
Estremecido aún por la matanza de 38 turistas extranjeros en la ciudad sureña de Susa, este país norteafricano cuenta hoy con una ley que endurece las penas y agiliza los juicios por ese delito.
The draft anti-terrorist and money laundering law was adopted, Saturday at dawn, by the House of People’s Representatives (HPR).
The new law that replaces the law n°2003-75 of December 10, 2003, related to the support international efforts in countering terrorism and money laundering, was passed with a large majority of 174 votes for, 10 against and no HPR Speaker Mohamed Ennaceur described the adoption of the new organic law as a “great achievement” which is “long-awaited by the Tunisian people.”
The General Legislation Committee approved, Wednesday evening, the draft law on fight against terrorism and money laundering, which will be submitted to the House of People’s Representatives (HPR).
Amendments were made to the draft law regarding the protection of witnesses, infiltrated persons and the accused, and the definition of some notions related to terrorism, commission president Abeda Kefi told TAP.
One hundred and thirty three (133) MPs voted for the transfer of the draft law on the Supreme Judicial Council (French: CSM) to the General Legislation Committee for reconsideration. Six deputies voted against and fourteen MPs abstained.
The MPs voted at a plenary session of the House of People’s Representatives (HPR) held Tuesday, part of the work of which was devoted to the discussion of the bill on the supreme judicial council.
The state of emergency was declared on Saturday in the entire territory. According to a statement which was read out by President Beji Caid Essebsi at the end of his address to the nation, the state of emergency will run from July 4 to August 2, 2015.
The move comes in the wake of last June 26 terrorist attack in a hotel in Sousse that left 38 dead and 39 others injured.
The decision was also take in view of the persistent terrorist threat weighing on Tunisia.
Le Conseil des ministres a tenu, hier, au palais du gouvernement à la Kasbah, sa réunion périodique sous la présidence du chef du gouvernement, Habib Essid.
The tourist police units will be armed while on duty inside and outside the tourist zones and units as of July 1, 2015.
Some 1,000 security officers will be deployed to boost this corps as well as fixed and mobile security units will be assigned near these zones, announced Sunday in a statement, the Ministry of Tourism and Handicrafts.
Terrorists killed at least 27 people in an attack Friday on a beachfront Tunisian hotel, Tunisian officials said, according to the state-run TAP news agency.
Tunisia's interior minister reported 27 dead -- at least some of whom were guests at the Hotel Riu Imperial Marhaba in Sousse, TAP reported.
Still, those figures are preliminary. In fact, an operation was still underway Friday afternoon after Tunisian security forces exchanged gunfire with the attackers.
The Bureau of the House of People’s Representatives (HPR) decided at its meeting Friday to make every effort to complete the discussion of the draft law on fight against terrorism and money laundering before Republic Day which coincides with next July 25.
The decision was taken at an extraordinary meeting of the HPR Bureau that took place Friday afternoon in the presence of parliamentary group presidents.
HPR Speaker Mohamed Ennaceur called on members of the committee responsible for that bill to redouble efforts and work day and night, if necessary, to achieve this goal.
Former Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his son-in-law Sakhr El Materi have been sentenced to 10 years behind bars for corruption.
The case, which also includes former Minister of State Properties, Ridha Grira and three executives including Fathi Sokri.
All of the accused were sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined 14 million dinars over the illegal
transfer of property.
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia during the 2011 revolution and currently lives with his family in Saudi Arabia.
El Materi was also tried in absentia.
The steering committee responsible for developing the organic draft law on the constitutional court within the Ministry of Justice has finalised its work this week.
Chaired by lawyer Amin Mahfoudh, the committee has handed the draft law to Minister of Justice Mohamed Salah Ben Aissa to send his comments before its submission to the cabinet meeting next week.
Speaker of the House of People's Representatives (HPR) Mohamed Ennaceur received, Wednesday, first President of the Court of Auditors Abdellatif Kharrat who handed him the general report on the 2014 legislative elections campaign financing.
The HPR Speaker commended the effort of this institution in terms of control to strengthen the principles of transparency and improve the good management of public spending.
