Politics

Tunisia-Constitutional Court: the bill referred to the President of the Republic

Tunisian presidential candidate Kais Saied poses for a picture with a national flag at his campaign headquarters in the capital Tunis on September 15, 2019, as exit polls ahead of the preliminary results for the polls predicted him to be "first in the first round". - Kais Saied, an independent 61-year-old law professor and expert on constitutional affairs, and jailed media mogul Nabil Karoui, behind bars due to a money laundering probe, the two anti-establishment candidates in Tunisia's divisive election on September 15, claimed to have won through to a runoff after polling closed in the country's second free presidential poll since the 2011 Arab Spring. (Photo by MOHAMED KHALIL / AFP)

The draft organic law amending and supplementing the law on the Constitutional Court was referred yesterday, Wednesday, June 3, 2021, to the President of the Republic.

The secretary-general of the provisional body for the control of the constitutionality of bills, Hayder Ben Amor, told the TAP agency that it was decided to transfer this bill back to the head of state for “not reaching the needed majority in the vote ”.

He specified that the Authority takes its decisions by an absolute majority (four out of six members) and that if the majority needed for the vote is not reached, the bill is referred to the President of the Republic, following the provisions of article 23 of the statute of the Authority.