ISIE announces results of election of members of councils of five districts

President of the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE), Farouk Bouasker, said of the 251 voters, members of regional councils, who were present Wednesday morning to vote for the members of the councils of the five districts, 249 voted, with a turnout rate of 99.2%. The number of women in the district councils is estimated at 15%, Bouasker said at a press conference at the end of the operation. It should be noted that voting did not take place in Monastir due to a challenge pending before the Administrative Court. It should also be noted that no candidate stood for Wednesday's election in the Jendouba and Tozeur constituencies. Immediately after these elections, the ISIE will convene the district councils to begin their work and hold their first meeting. This process will be crowned by the opening of candidacies for a seat on the National Council of Regions and Districts, added the ISIE president, who specified that the vote to elect the members of this council, which is none other than the seco nd legislative chamber, should take place before the end of March. It is likely that the National Council of Regions and Districts will hold its first meeting in the first half of April, he added Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse