A faint campaign in the legislation of Tunisia .. Is the scenario repeated presidential?

Khamis Ben Brik-Tunisia

On a Tunis street, Reda Maizi is keen to woo his passers-by to distribute small white and blue papers with the image of the movement's leader, Rashid Ghannouchi, who is running for the first time to the People's Assembly.

Wearing a hat with a portrait of a Yamama (party emblem) and a blue folk costume, apparently tired on his sun-drenched face, but still confirms his intention to continue enlisting with his party to make his campaign successful.

Observers are likely to see the results of legislative elections earthquake similar to what happened in the first round of the presidential elections, expecting the rise of new parties and lists of coalition and independent in return for the decline of the results of major parties.

These observers are based on what they see as "Proda" hit the propaganda campaign for the legislative elections scheduled for the sixth of next month, because the atmosphere of the early presidential elections attracted the attention of the people.

thoughtlessness
Along with the metro station on Tunis Square, some pedestrians are unconcerned with electoral data distributed by activists from different parties in front of tents set up for this purpose.

Maizi stands by a young man passing by, trying to brief him on the content of his party's election program, but the young man seemed absent-minded, which made Reda admit that many young people are tired of parties and are now supporting university professor Qais Saeed who swept the results of the first round of the presidency.

Retreat
Maizi, a former Islamist prisoner, struggles to persuade some girls to read Ennahdha's program, but says he has seen a decline in public interest in the legislative elections because of the tyranny of talk of the first-round results of the presidential election.

Although Maizi hopes that his party will win most of the 217 seats in the more than 1,500 party, coalition and independent lists, he fears that there will be new surprises in the legislative elections, especially with the intense competition between his movement and the Heart of Tunisia party.

Not far from it, Yassin arranges his goods from phone supplies at a small table on Paris Street leading to the capital, where queues of street vendors crowd the shops there. Yassin listens to the echoes of the electoral songs emanating from afar, but does not pay attention to them, focusing his attention on the coming of the police for fear of his goods.

Yassin was displaced 15 years ago from Ain Draham, one of the poorest areas in the northwest. After dropping out of education and not acquiring any professional skills, he resorted to buying Chinese goods imported from major stores in the capital to sell on the edge of the road, and to ensure that they are not seized, he says he pays a "royalty" to some security.

The young man did not vote in any elections before or after the revolution because of the "loss of hope in repairing the collapsed conditions". ".

Yassin said voters "punished the ruling and opposition parties in the presidential elections for failing to rectify the situation, rampant corruption and nepotism," adding that some of those parties "continue the same path of their mistake by funding their campaigns with huge funds recruiting beautiful girls to win over voters without understanding anything in politics.

Posters and passers-by
On some streets off the capital's main street, empty spaces appear in the spaces reserved for hanging electoral lists on the walls.While some passers-by check for some of the candidates, others continue to walk wandering towards their different destinations without uninterested attention.

Along the main street of Habib Bourguiba, the venue seemed to be devoid of all manifestations of electoral propaganda of political parties and candidate lists, as opposed to the intense atmosphere in the 2011 Constituent Assembly elections and the recent legislative elections in 2014.

Regarding the atmosphere of the legislative elections, which ends on October 4, Electoral College member Adel Al-Berensi said that the introduction of the presidential date after the death of the late President Beji Kaid Essebsi had attracted the attention of the people especially after the resounding results of the first round.

Speaking to Al Jazeera Net, he believes that there is a "great exaggeration by the media in focusing on the presidential elections and ignoring the legislative elections, despite their importance, as they will determine the features of the next political scene in parliament and will produce a new government and a new government and a new speaker Country. "

He also acknowledged "the existence of a lack of the Commission in relation to the expeditionary campaigns to measure the enthusiasm and voter turnout in the legislative elections," expressing his fear of "directing political money to influence voters through social media and through twisted ways to buy votes."