Tunisia President Kais Saied have introduced new electoral law that reduces the influence of political parties in the elections.

People will now vote for individuals instead of lists from parties that has been in previous elections.

The main parties in Tunisia have rejected the law, which comes ahead of parliamentary elections on 17 December 2022.

Mr Saied said the new law allows the people to exercise "effective sovereignty" and dis-missed concerns that political parties were being exclude.

"If there is exclusion, it will be expressed by the people on election day," the state news agency TAP reported him as saying.

President Saied dismissed parliament over a year ago and has been ruling largely by decree.

In July, a new Tunisian constitution giving sweeping powers to the president was approved in a referendum marked by low voter participation by whose results the opposition said were not legitimate.