Tunis: Habib Khedher, head of the committee which is in charge of drafting the constitution of Tunisia, said on Monday that constitution will not be adopted by parliament until April 2013.
Khedher, a member of the ruling Islamist party Ennahda, said: “The final draft of the constitution could be put to the vote (in the National Constituent Assembly) at the end of April.
“I think that is a realistic target.”
The government had until now insisted that it would meet the deadline of October 23 for ratifying the new constitution, in order to hold planned general elections in March 2013, AFP reported.
Khedher said the new timetable will be discussed at a meeting of the NCA on September 3, ahead of the next parliamentary session.
Tunisia’s main parties were given one year to draft a new constitution, after elections that brought Ennahda to power at the head of a coalition also grouping centre-left parties the Congress for the Republic and Ettakatol.
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