Tunis: Interim Tunisian President Foued Mebazaa has announced that elections for a new National Assembly would be held on July 24.
In an address to the People he said that the country had entered a new period of its history, one that rested on the people’s exercise of their full sovereignty as part of a new political system which would see a breaks definitely and irreversibly from that of the regime of deposed president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali who ruled for 23 years.
Mebazaa emphasized his commitment to carry on his mission beyond March 15, 2011, until the elections were held.
He presented a detailed plan of political events “that will determine the country’s near future”, a road map which, he said, “has enjoyed broad consensus among the different political sides, components of civil society and national organisations to meet the aspirations of the brave Tunisian people who expressed determination to break off once and for all with the past”.
He also announced the adoption of an interim organization of public powers, composed of the interim president and a transitory government headed by Beji Caid Essebsi, and which would end the day when the new National Constituent Assembly starts its works, after its free, pluralistic and fair election of July 24.
The Interim President said that in order to elect the National Constituent Assembly democratically and in accordance with the principles of the Revolution, a special electoral system would be established.
He underlined that “the Commission for the Achievement of the Objectives of the Revolution and Democratic Transition” was striving to elaborate the required legal text in this respect, which would be the focus of a consultation within the Commission’s Council.
The council would be made up of national political figures, representatives of the different political parties, authorities, organisations and associations and components of civil society, in the capital and from the regions, i.e. people who had contributed and supported the Revolution.
The Interim President announced that this legal document would be adopted by late March so that effective preparations for the elections could start.
Mebazaa underlined that the implementation of this programme would finalise the work for the next period, with a view to meeting “the expectations of the Tunisian people, and remaining faithful to the memory of the brave martyrs, which would reverberate across the world the authentic image of the Tunisian Revolution, and grant it its higher place in human civilization”.
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