TUNIS, The Tunisian Assembly of the People’s Representatives on Monday held a plenary session, the first such session after 18-month hiatus, where Ibrahim Bouderbala was elected as parliament speaker.
Bouderbala, former head of the Bar Association and a close ally of President Kais Saied, got 83 votes – a comfortable lead over his closest rival, Abdelssalem Dahmani who got 67 votes.
Anwar Marzouki and Saoussen Mabrouk were elected as deputy speakers in the session chaired by Saleh Al-Mubaraki – the eldest MP. One and a half years ago, President Saied imposed a freeze on the parliament and then dissolved it on March 30, 2022.
The new legislature, formed after the elections of mid-December 2022, is made up of 154 MPs while the dissolved one had 217 members.
Source: Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)