Tunis, Jul 10 (IANS): The Tunisian official gazette published an amended draft constitution, hours after President Kais Saied said errors were found in the previous version prepared for the constitutional referendum.
According to the corrections, the text "under a democratic system" is put after "(Tunisia) is part of the Islamic community" in the fifth chapter, reports Xinhua news agency.
Moreover, Article 60 states that the Assembly of People's Representatives, or Parliament, should be elected every five years during the last three months of its term "via a general, free, direct election with secret ballots", which is an addition to the original version.
Other changes also included the conditions for running for the presidency, which now stipulates "candidates and female candidates" instead of only male ones.
The new constitution comprises 10 chapters and 142 articles and will be presented on July 25 to a referendum.