Parliamentary election in Tunisia 2019
The fourteenth parliamentary election for the People's Representative Assembly of the Republic of Tunisia took place on October 6, 2019. The strongest force was the Islamic Ennahda party, the second strongest was the newly founded Qalb Tunis (“Heart of Tunisia”) party.
Starting position
The general election was the second after the outbreak of the Arab Spring in 2011, which only resulted in a democratic system in Tunisia. In the 2014 election , the secular party Nidaa Tounes won the most seats with 86 seats, followed by Ennahda with 69 seats, the Free Patriotic Union (UPL) with 16 seats, the Popular Front (FP) with 15 seats and other parties.
On September 15, 2019 the first round of voting had presidential election took place, the runoff election was scheduled for October 13. While this election was brought forward because of the incumbent's death, the parliamentary election took place on a regular basis.
Numerous newly founded parties also ran for the 2019 election, including Qalb Tunis of the businessman and presidential candidate Nabil Karoui .
Electoral process
217 MPs were elected in 33 constituencies . Six MPs were chosen by Tunisians abroad. The distribution of seats was determined using the Hare-Niemeyer method . According to the electoral law, the election lists had to be made up of equal numbers of men and women, but there were many male individual applicants and male top candidates.
Voters had to register before the election.
Result
Ennahda received 52 of 217 seats, making it the largest parliamentary group despite the loss of votes.
In addition to Qalb Tunis, other newly founded parties with larger parliamentary groups moved into parliament, such as the Islamist-extremist Al-Karama party and the anti-Islamic Parti destourien libre .
The biggest loser was the Nidaa Tounes party , which was elected the strongest force in 2014 but was only able to keep three of its 86 seats in parliament in 2019.
The turnout of 41.32% was significantly lower than in the previous elections in 2014 and the results were more fragmented, so that the formation of a government was expected to be difficult.
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| Parti or alliance | be right | proportion of | +/- | Seats | +/- | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ennahda | 561.132 | 19.55% | −8.16% | 52 | −17 | |||||||||
| Heart of Tunisia | 416.004 | 14.49% | New | 38 | +38 | |||||||||
| Free Destur Party | 189,356 | 6.60% | N / A | 17th | +17 | |||||||||
| Democratic current | 183.473 | 6.39% | + 4.49% | 22nd | +19 | |||||||||
| Coalition of Dignity | 169,651 | 5.91% | New | 21st | +21 | |||||||||
| Popular movement | 129,604 | 4.52% | + 3.19% | 15th | +12 | |||||||||
| Tahya Tounes | 116,582 | 4.06% | New | 14th | +14 | |||||||||
| Republican People's Union | 59,924 | 2.09% | N / A | 3 | +3 | |||||||||
| Ah Tounsi | 46,401 | 1.62% | New | 1 | +1 | |||||||||
| al Badil Ettounsi | 46,046 | 1.60% | New | 3 | +3 | |||||||||
| Espoir et travail | 45.196 | 1.57% | New | 2 | +2 | |||||||||
| Afek Tounes | 43,892 | 1.53% | -1.48% | 2 | -6 | |||||||||
| Nidaa Tounes | 43.213 | 1.51% | -36.05% | 3 | -83 | |||||||||
| Machrouu Tounes | 40,869 | 1.42% | New | 4th | +4 | |||||||||
| Errahma | 40,071 | 1.40% | N / A | 4th | +4 | |||||||||
| Popular Front | 32,226 | 1.12% | -2.53% | 1 | -14 | |||||||||
| Le front | 30,013 | 1.05% | New | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Democratic and Social Movement | 29,828 | 1.04 | New | 1 | +1 | |||||||||
| La Tunisie autrement | 26,341 | 0.92% | New | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Al Amal | 26,196} | 0.91% | New | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Tous pour la Patrie | 19,954 | 0.70% | New | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Flow of love | 17,749 | 0.62% | -0.58% | 1 | -1 | |||||||||
| Al Watan Al Jadid | 16,955 | 0.58% | New | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Mouatinoun et Ncharek | 16,533 | 0.57% | New | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Socialist Destur Party | 16,235 | 0.57% | New | 1 | +1 | |||||||||
| Chabeb Tounes Al Watani | 13,975 | 0.49% | New | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Beni Watani | 13,154 | 0.46% | New | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Party of the Voice of Farmers | 9366 | 0.33% | + 0.23% | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| Congress for the Republic | 8869 | 0.31% | -1.83% | 0 | -4 | |||||||||
| Socialist party | 8209 | 0.29% | N / A | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Ettakatol | 7507 | 0.26% | -0.46% | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Non-attached | 46.006 | 1.60% | - | 11 | +10 | |||||||||
| Other parties and lists | 399.784 | 13.93% | - | 0 | -30 | |||||||||
| Votes cast | 2,870,314 | 97.41% | ||||||||||||
| Blank notes | 26,403 | 0.90% | ||||||||||||
| Invalid notes | 49,704 | 1.68% | ||||||||||||
| Votes canceled | 207 | 0.01% | ||||||||||||
| total | 2,946,628 | 100% | - | 217 | 0 | |||||||||
| Non-voters | 4,120,312 | 58.30% | ||||||||||||
| Registered voters / turnout | 7,065,885 | 41.70% | ||||||||||||
Government formation
On November 15, Ennahda was given the task of forming a government by the President; Former Secretary of State Jemli was to become Prime Minister. However, on January 10, 2020, Parliament rejected Jemli's proposal by 134 votes to 72. On January 21, the former finance minister Elyes Fakhfakh was given the task of forming a government. On February 27, parliament approved its coalition government with 129 votes to 77.
Web links
- Législatives en Tunisie: Ennahdha en tête avec 52 sièges, selon les résultats officiels , Jeune Afrique , AFP, October 10, 2019
- Election results by constituency , Instance Supérieure Indépendante pour les Élections
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ex-State Secretary Jemli is to become the new head of government. deutschlandfunk.de from November 16, 2019, accessed on November 19, 2019
- ↑ Tunisia's parliament recects new gov't. africanews.com, January 10, 2020, accessed January 11, 2020
- ^ Tunisia: president picks new prime minister. africanews.com, January 21, 2020, accessed January 21, 2020
- ↑ Tusisia: Tough task ahead for new government. africanews.com, February 28, 2020, accessed February 28, 2020
- ↑ Presentation on your own website
