Tunisian Constitution of 2014 Arabic: 2014 دستور تونس | |
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Created | 26 January 2014 |
Ratified | 27 January 2014 |
Superseded | 25 July 2022 |
Author(s) | Constituent Assembly of Tunisia |
Purpose | To replace the Tunisian Constitution of 1959 |
Member State of the African Union Member State of the Arab League |
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The Tunisian Constitution of 2014 (Arabic: 2014 دستور تونس) was adopted on 26 January 2014 by the Constituent Assembly elected on 23 October 2011 in the wake of Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution that overthrew President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. It was passed on 10 February 2014,[1] replacing the constitutional law of 16 December 2011 that temporarily formed the basis of government after the suspension of the Constitution of 1959.
The Supreme Law of the State, it is the third Constitution of the country's modern history after the Constitutions of 1861 and 1959.[2]