The Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) will file 12 complaints with the public prosecutor’s office for spreading false information, public defamation and attribution of erroneous facts against platforms, sites and pages of social media, ISIE President Farouk Bouasker said.
«These attacks target the electoral operation, ISIE and even the candidates,» he added.
Speaking to TAP on Wednesday , on the sidelines of the opening of the training session for presidents and directors of regional bodies on the procedures of voting, counting and announcement of results, Bouasker underlined that ISIE got used to calls for a boycott of elections made by political parties and personalities, considering that «they will have no impact on the electoral process because these are local elections in Imadas and therefore people of the same Imada».
According to Bouasker, the electoral campaign is proceeding normally and the body has not recorded significant overruns on the part of candidates in the local elections,
adding that electoral activities should intensify during the last week of the electoral campaign.
The ISIE President said that the body’s media center will be changed.
Only media with accreditation is authorized to access polling centers and polling stations, he underscored, specifying that more than 3,500 accreditations have been granted to local and international journalists, Tunisian and foreign observers as well as to guests and candidate representatives.
Bouasker also indicated that the local councils will be operational next March, followed by the regional and district councils and then the national council of regions and districts.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse