Tunisia has announced it has adopted a new electoral law to govern legislative and presidential polls due to be held by the end of 2014.

The interim parliament has approved the resultion that comes three years after the country’s revolution. The law was passed by 132 votes in for, 11 against and nine abstentions in the 217-member National Constituent Assembly, reports Business Standard.

The assembly, which started voting on the law article by article last Friday, had initially set itself an April 27 target to wind up the often rowdy debate.

Also adopted was a clause imposing male-female parity in party lists.

According to the parliment, it will need between six and eight months to organize elections once the law was passed.