Tunisia's presidential and parliamentary elections will possibly be held in the second half of November, the head of the African country’s election agency says.

Chafik Sarsar, head of the Supreme Independent Institute for Election (ISIE), said on Saturday that he would propose the elections to be held on November 16 or 23.

"There is a strong probability that the elections will be the third or fourth Sunday of November in the case that the presidential and parliamentary votes are together," Sarsar said.

Tunisian legislators are scheduled to meet next week to decide whether or not to hold the two polls on the same day.

The planned elections aim to create permanent institutions in the country following the 2011 revolution that overthrew the Western-backed dictator, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

In January 2011, Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia, following weeks of bloody protests over corruption, unemployment and high food prices.

Since then, he has been handed two life sentences for his regime’s crackdown on protesters prior to his ouster.

According to the United Nations figures, more than 300 people were killed and many others wounded in the crackdown by security forces during the revolution.

On April 12, the Tunisian Military Appeals Court released all former officials accused of killing peaceful protesters. The court declared that killing people during the uprising was an act of duty.

Following the court ruling, 12 relatives of those killed during the 2011 revolution went on hunger strike demanding justice.

The hunger strike is being held at the office of the National Coordination Committee for Transitional Justice to denounce what the families describe as the complicity between the former regime and the military court.

The striking relatives have received support from the country’s labor union leaders, who represent 600,000 workers.