Tunisian ruling party's conference starts tomorrow

The third general conference for the ruling Tunisian Constitutional Democratic Rally Party is starting tomorrow and will last four days. This is the third conference since Tunisian President Zein El-Abidin Bin Ali assumed power in November 1987 instead of El-Habib Bourikaba.

The secretary-general of the Constitutional Democratic Rally Party, Abdul Aziz Bin Deia, said that the third conference to discuss the challenges of the coming century and law to confront it under the slogan "The Privilege."

2,318 members will participate in the conference, on the basis of a deputy for each 1,000 members in the party, with exceptions for youths, students and women, who represent 9.85% of the total conference's deputes.

147 members will participate in the central committee's meetings who were elected in two stages.

The percentage of the woman's participation is 12% of the committee's members.

More than 232 journalists will cover this conference's works, from the international mass media, in addition to representatives from Tunisian parties which have parliamentary representation, national non-governmental organizations and 71 parties in foreign and Arab countries.