Tunisia's
legislative and presidential elections will be held before the end of 2014, the
media cited Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa and Head of Elections Board (ISIE)
Chafik Sarsar as saying Tuesday.
Significant
progress has been made in preparing for the next elections, Jomaa said
following his meeting with elections board members Monday evening, according to
Xinhua.
The ISIE
had earlier asked the government for 10 million dinars ($6.3 million) as
election budget and Jomaa said his government has granted an advance in March.
Sarsar
explained that the first estimation of the election expenses was around 100
million dinars, but the ISIE is working on reducing the cost to guarantee that
the elections will happen by 2014-end.
In
addition, two scenarios are currently being discussed about the election: one
is to hold simultaneous legislative and presidential elections and the other is
to hold them separately and have two rounds of presidential election rounds.
No final
decision has been reached yet and political parties have been divided about the
two options.
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