Tunisia’s parliament has amended a law to strip power from courts over decisions made by an embattled election authority whose members are appointed by President Kais Saied.

Nine days before the presidential election, a majority of members of parliament voted in favor of amending the young democracy's first election law as the election authority remains in conflict with courts demanding that it return three candidates to the ballot.

A majority of Tunisian MPs approved a bill on Friday to transfer election oversight powers from the independent Administrative Court to the country's general appellate courts. The law, now in