TUNIS, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian parliamentary elections officially started on Friday in six overseas constituencies to elect 18 of the 217 deputies to constitute the Assembly of People's Representatives, the Independent High Authority for Elections said (ISIE).
"The Tunisian community abroad will go to the polls from Oct. 4 to 6," the ISIE said.
The 18 seats reserved for deputies representing the Tunisian community abroad including 10 seats for the two constituencies of France, three for Italy, two for Arab countries, one for Germany and two for the U.S. and rest of the world.
In total, 1,572 electoral lists, including 687 party lists, 722 independent lists and 163 coalition lists are in the competition for the parliamentary elections which will be held on Oct. 6 on Tunisian soil.
The number of candidates in these lists reached 15,737 and the total number of registered voters for Tunisia's parliamentary elections exceeded 7 million.
The total number of polling stations in Tunisian legislative and presidential elections is 13,450 on the national territory and 384 abroad.
