Video shows assembly member rigging vote

Tunisia's post-revolution transition has had its own problems Several members of Tunisia's constituent assembly may face charges of vote-rigging regarding the parliament's approval of the supplementary budget of 2012, submitted by prime minister Hamadi Jebali's transitional

government. A video posted on social networking sites in Tunisia showed Abdel Moneim Kreer, a People's Petition Party MP, voting more than once for the same proposal.
Last Friday, 170 MPs voted for a proposal introduced in the session, according to digital records.. However, the session was physically attended by only 120 members.
The incident has become a major issue with some MPs insisting on an investigation to reveal those involved in "such disgraceful practices".
The chairman of the assembly, Mustafa Ben Jaafar, has not issued any official statement regarding the case, but called on all representatives "to satisfy the people's trust". In addition, a large number of Tunisian social media users have launched campaigns urging Kreer to publicly apologise or resign.
Kreer himself refused to comment on the incident when Arabstoday contacted him. The head of Tunisia's ruling Ennahda's parliamentary bloc, al-Sahbi Atiq, said his party has called the assembly chairman to take "firm action", in order to prevent such a thing from happening again.
"I call on all my fellow members not to commit such acts, which are a treason against the oath which we have taken as representatives of the Tunisian people," Atiq said.
MP Azad Abady, who recently resigned from the Conference for the Republic Party, stated that he saw some parliamentarians voting two or three times for or against the same proposal, which in turn pushed him to call for the return of manual instead of electronic voting which was introduced last March.
Analysts have questioned the credibility of the assembly's decrees after the incident was exposed, especially regarding the drafting of a new constitution for the country.