Tunisia Adopts Law for 2014 Elections

<p class="desc">Tunisia's interim parliament on Thursday (1 May), approved a new electoral law to govern legislative and presidential polls due to be held by the end of 2014.</p><p class="desc">Three years after the country's revolution, the law was passed by 132 votes in favor, 11 against and nine abstentions in the 217-member National Constituent Assembly.</p><p class="desc">The assembly, which started voting on the law article by article last Friday, had initially set itself an April 27 target to wind up the often rowdy debate.</p><p class="desc">A major bone of contention that led to insults being traded was over a proposed ban on officials of the ousted regime from standing for office, a proposal which was rejected by a single vote.</p>
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