{"id":195724,"date":"2025-04-09T16:36:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-new-local-govt-code-and-electoral-system-needed-before-holding-municipal-elections-says-president-of-republic\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:36:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:36:48","slug":"tunisia-new-local-govt-code-and-electoral-system-needed-before-holding-municipal-elections-says-president-of-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-new-local-govt-code-and-electoral-system-needed-before-holding-municipal-elections-says-president-of-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: &#8216;New Local Govt Code and Electoral System Needed Before Holding Municipal Elections,&#8217; Says President of Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Monastir \u2014 &#8220;A new local government code and a new electoral system need to be put in place before municipal elections can be held,&#8221; President Kais Saied said in Monastir on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Head of State made these remarks during a press statement, while presiding over the 25th commemoration of the late leader Habib Bourguiba at the Bourguiba Mausoleum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">He added: &#8220;First, the current local government code must be changed&#8211;it is a document of corruption. The first version was drafted in 2015 and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504070053.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monastir \u2014 &#8220;A new local government code and a new electoral system need to be put in place before municipal elections can be held,&#8221; President Kais Saied said in Monastir on Sunday. The Head of State made these remarks during a press statement, while presiding over the 25th commemoration of the late leader Habib Bourguiba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":195725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,6713,821,7239,4357,14784,7823,7481,6424,257,2450,5935,254,7232,4703,653],"class_list":["post-195724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-code","tag-elections","tag-electoral","tag-govt","tag-holding","tag-local","tag-municipal","tag-needed","tag-news","tag-president","tag-republic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-system","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}