Women protest outside the Independent High Authority for Elections

Tunisian women organized a protest outside the headquarters of the Independent High Authority for Elections in Tunis, against the electoral law and electoral process to be held next December. Protesters stated that the electoral law excluded women, youth and people with disabilities by not stipulating participation and parity in electoral law. Neila Zoghlami, president of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women, explained in an interview with A24 that electoral law’s exclusion of women and youth means their rights, freedoms and gains are renounced.

Mohamed Jelassi, head of the Tunisian Journalists Syndicate, who participated in the protest, expressed in an interview with A24 his support for the demands of women with regards to the right to be present in parliamentary and representative assemblies through a law that allows them to, as well as the adoption of parity, which requires candidates to include women and men. He said this law is unfair to Tunisian women who have contributed immense efforts to their personal, political and professional lives.