Tunisian deputies' council approves draft law allowing party leaders to be nominated for presidency

The Tunisian Council of Deputies approved Wednesday a draft law to amend the basis of nomination for the post of president. The draft dictates that in case the nomination's conditions stated in the third item from chapter 40 of the constitution could exceptionally nominate this year to the presidency post candidates who are leaders or secretary generals of legal parties, but on the condition that the leader has held this post for five consecutive years before the day of his nomination and that the party in deputies' council could have one or more representatives.