(TAP) – The bloc of the National Coalition will officially submit the file of its constitution next Monday to the registry of the House of People’s Representatives (HPR).

Submitting the file will take place at the end of the meeting of the parliamentary bloc which provides for the formation of the bureau of the group, the appointment of a vice-president and the definition of its rules of procedure, president of the bloc, Mustapha Ben Ahmed told TAP on Friday.

The deputies who were in other parliamentary groups and who joined the bloc of the National Coalition have officially resigned from their previous bloc, he said.

"Thus, there is no legal irregularity inherent in the deputies’ membership to the new parliamentary bloc," he said.

A group of deputies announced on August 27, 2018 the creation of a new parliamentary bloc called "National Coalition".

Composed at the start of 33 deputies, the new parliamentary bloc now includes 43 deputies according to Mustapha Ben Ahmed.

The bloc includes independents, resigning parliamentary groups from Machrou Tounes and Nidaa Tounes movements as well as deputies from the bloc of the Free Patriotic Union.