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Constituent Assembly

Tunisian government
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A Constituent Assembly is a body with the power to create a government or draft and amend a constitution. In Tunisia, following the Jasmine Revolution and the departure of President Ben Ali, a Constituent Assembly was elected on October 23, 2011. This assembly's mandate was to appoint an interim cabinet and draft a new constitution for the country. The moderate Islamist Ennahda Party won the majority of seats in this election. The assembly successfully approved an interim constitution and elected Moncef Marzouki as president, who then appointed Hamadi Jebali as prime minister. The process involved significant compromise between secular and Islamist factions, culminating in the approval of a new constitution in January 2014.123

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