- Title: Tunisians vote in parliamentary election
- Date: 6th October 2019
- Summary: TUNIS, TUNISIA (OCTOBER 6, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF VOTERS WALKING INTO POLLING STATION VOTERS LINING UP OUTSIDE POLLING STATION VOTER REGISTERING VOTER DIPPING FINGER IN INDELIBLE INK VARIOUS OF VOTERS CASTING BALLOTS (SOUNDBITE)(Arabic) VOTER, BASMA EMAMY, SAYING: "I really wish from God that the government solves our problems, and leads our country to a better economy with jobs, and better security. This is all I pray for, that our green Tunisia can be green once more, and to become better than it once was." VARIOUS OF VICE PRESIDENT OF MODERATE ISLAMIST PARTY ENNAHDA, ABDEL FATTAH MOROU ARRIVING AT POLLING STATION / ENTERING POLLING STATION MOROU REGISTERING VARIOUS OF MOROU VOTING MOROU CASTING BALLOT (SOUNDBITE)(Arabic) VICE PRESIDENT OF MODERATE ISLAMIST PARTY ENNAHDA, ABDEL FATTAH MOROU, SAYING: "Parliament has a big job to do on the economic and social fronts so as to lead political parties away from political and ideological differences, and move directly to achieving the economic and social demands of the citizen, and this issue is of the utmost importance." VARIOUS OF VOTERS IN QUEUE
- Embargoed: 20th October 2019 09:51
- Keywords: tunisia election voting parliament Abdel Fattah Morou ballots
- Location: TUNIS, TUNISIA
- City: TUNIS, TUNISIA
- Country: Tunisia
- Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA001AZYKN5Z
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Tunisians began voting on Sunday (October 6) for a parliament that must address chronic economic problems at a moment when political newcomers are mounting a challenge to the established parties.
Voters queued outside polling stations in the capital Tunis, only eight years after rising up to throw off autocratic rule and introduce democracy in a revolution that inspired the "Arab Spring".
But the failure of repeated coalition governments that grouped the old secular elite and the long-banned moderate Islamist Ennahda party to address a weak economy and declining public services has disillusioned many voters.
Sunday's vote for parliament is sandwiched between two rounds of a presidential election in which turnout has been low and which advanced two political newcomers to the runoff at the expense of major-party candidates. It is not clear what that may mean for Sunday's election, in which Ennahda is one of several parties hoping to emerge with most votes, including the Heart of Tunisia party of media mogul Nabil Karoui.
While the president directly controls foreign and defence policy, the largest party in parliament nominates the prime minister, who forms a government focused on most domestic policy.
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