Twinning for institutional capacity building for Tunisia’s Assembly of the Representatives of the People

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Assembly of the Representatives of the People in Tunis. Credit: Expertise France.
Assembly of the Representatives of the People in Tunis. Credit: Expertise France.
Project start date
Status

Closed

Project end date
Financing amount (Euro)
1.6m
Country and region
Tunisia, Africa

This European institutional twinning operation aims to build the institutional capacities of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People, with a view to the effective exercise of legislative power, in accordance with the Constitution.

Tunisia was the first Mediterranean country to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union in July 1995. The Tunisian Revolution in January 2011 subsequently paved the way for a transition towards a system of democratic governance, based on the separation of powers and the rule of law.

The Assembly of the Representatives of the People (ARP), which represents legislative power in the monocameral system created by the Constitution of 2014, was the first institution set up following the adoption of the new Constitution.

This project, which has now reached completion, was part of the political and democratic transition initiated by Tunisia in 2011 and the revolution of the Arab Spring.

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