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RCD holds majority in Parliament, 5 opposition parties win seats


Tunisia 25 October 2004

The Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD) has maintained its absolute majority in the Tunisian parliament after the Sunday elections.

The RCD party has won 152 out of 189 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.It used to hold 149 seats in the previous 182-seat legislature.

Five of the country’s seven opposition parties will be represented in the Chamber of Deputies:

-- "The Social Democratic Movement" (MDS) : 14 seats, against 12 in the previous legislature.

-- "The Popular Unity Party" (PUP): 11 seats, against 7 previously.

-- "The Unionist Democratic Union" (UDU) : 7 seats, the same as before.

-- "Ettajdid Movement" (former communist) : 3 seats, against 5 previously.

-- "The Liberal Social Party" (PSL) : 2 seats, the same as before.

The Progressive Democratic Party and independent slates did not win any seats.

The RCD has held 80% of the seats in parliament since the 1999 elections. Five opposition parties have shared the remaining seats since then based on a provision in the election law allocating 20% of the seats to political parties which do not win the majority of votes in the various electoral districts.

The new Parliament will include a higher ratio of women. A total of 39 out of the 152 RCD-affiliated members of Parliament are women, against 20 in the previous legislature.The higher figure of women MP's comes after a decision by President Zine El Abididine Ben Ali according to which the majority party (which he chairs) will present no less than 25% of women candidates in its legislative slates.

The other new trait of the Tunisian Parliament is the absence of members of government, who for the first time did not run for legislative seats.

Final results of legislative elections

- Registered voters: 4,609,237
- Voters: 4,215,151
- Spoilt ballots: 15,305
- Votes cast: 4,199,846
- Turnout: 91.45 %
- Number of seats on electoral district level: 152
- Number of seats on national level: 37

Distribution of seats between lists:

"The Democratic Constitutional Rally" :
- on constituency level: 152
- on national level: 0
- total : 152

"Ettajdid Movement":
- on constituency level: 0
- on national level: 3
- total: 3

"The Social Democratic movement" :
- on constituency level: 0
- on national level: 14
- total : 14

"The Popular Unity Party" :
- on constituency level: 0
- on national level: 11
- total : 11

"The Liberal Social Party" :
- on constituency level: 0
- on national level: 2
- total : 2

"The Progressive Democratic Party" :
- on constituency level: 0
- on national level: 0
- total : 0

"The Unionist Democratic Union" :
- on constituency level: 0
- on national level: 7
- total : 7

" The independent list ''-- Attaliaa'' (Bizerte)
- on constituency level: 0
- on national level: 0
- total: 0

"The independent list '' -- Unionist Alliance'' (Nabeul)
- on constituency level: 0
- on national level: 0
- total : 0

The independent list ''—Conscience (Zaghouan)
- on constituency level: 0
- on national level: 0
- total : 0

"The independent list ''-- For the Homeland' (Kairouan)
- on constituency level: 0
- on national level: 0
- total : 0

"The independent list ''-- For the Homeland (Tozeur)
- on constituency level: 0
- on national level: 0
- total : 0

" The independent list -- Support to November 7th (Sfax)
- on constituency level: 0
- on national level: 0
- total : 0

Overall total :

- Seats won on the level of electoral districts: 152
- Seats won on the national level: 37
- Total seats: 189