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Nidaa Tounes expect to gain 80 parliamentary seats

October 21, 2014 at 2:07 pm

The Nidaa Tounes (Call of Tunisia) is counting on winning 70 to 80 seats, of a possible 217, in the upcoming parliament, the party’s leader and head of Beji Caid El-Sebsi’s presidential campaign Mohsen Marzouk said yesterday evening.

During his interview with a number of foreign journalists in the capital city of Tunis, Marzouk said: “Ennahda and Nidaa Tounes will win between 140 and 145 seats in the next parliament.”

The parliamentary election campaigns began in Tunisia on October 4, while the period of electoral silence will begin on October 23 for the elections abroad and October 25 for those at home, one day before the polling day on October 26. Preliminary results of the legislative elections will be announced on October 30.

Elections will be held in 33 constituencies, 27 of which are in Tunisia and six for Tunisians living abroad.

The first round of the Tunisian presidential election is scheduled for November 23. The Independent High Authority for the Elections (ISIE) announced that 27 final candidates were approved out of 70 initial applications