The National Constituent Assembly’s Commission on Finance, Development and Planning held, on Tuesday 11th March, a session with the Court of Auditors and the General Commission on Legislation to discuss the issue of financing of election campaigns, in the context of discussions about the new electoral law. The Court of Auditors had monitored election finances
Jasmine Foundation spoke to Badreddine Abdelkefi, member of the National Constituent Assembly in charge of Relations with Civil Society, to discuss the role of Civil Society in drafting the Tunisian constitution and the novel mechanisms established for the inclusion of Civil Society in the process of drafting from the start of its work in late
The National Constituent Assembly has begun its discussions of the new electoral law, the first law to be discussed since the adoption of the Constitution on 27 January. After the formation of the Independent Higher Elections Council (ISIE) in January, a new electoral law is needed in order to provide the legal framework for organizing
dr Bartłomiej Nowotarski THESES FOR CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY FOR NEW PROJECTS (Based on the analysis of consolidation more than 80 young global democracies in the twentieth and twenty-first century) Only 27% of countries, including those who had undergone a democratic transition since 1974, managed to consolidate their democracies. The remaining 73% could be called hybrid “autocratic-democratic.”
