Saïed restructured the Instance supérieure indépendante pour les élections in May and opposition parties from the left and the hard right Parti destourien libre (PDL) led by former Zine el Abidine Ben Ali loyalist Abir Moussi have accused it of corruption...

Some other parties shared similar fears and voted in favour while Qalb Tounes and Abir Moussi's Free Destourian Party voted against...

Ennahda and supporters of Prime Minister Youssef Chahed who is also running for president backed the law which was also believed to be aimed at Abir Moussi the leader of the Parti Destourien Libre who wants Islamists banned from politics and is one of two women standing...

Also competing will be ex-president Moncef Marzouki – who is more popular abroad than at home – and some eye-catching populists if as expected the interim state president 85-year-old parliamentary Speaker and NT leader Mohammed Ennaceur follow's BCE's line by refusing to ratify controversial electoral law amendments which would ban media magnate Nabil Karoui and Parti Destourien Libre leader Abir Moussi from standing (AC Vol 60 No 13 Nobbling Nabil)...

Also affected is Parti Destourien Libre leader Abir Moussi who called the move 'a joke'...