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GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS If we look at the problems of government in the independent countries of North Africa in an order of ascending difficulties, we find that Tunisia made the transition from dependence to independence with a minimum of shock and discontinuity, and has functioned since with remarkable smoothness. Arrange- ments had already been made during the autonomous period for elections to a Constituent Assembly and these were held on March 25, 1956, only five days after Franco-Tunisian protocol recognizing Tunisia as an independent state had been signed. The neo-Destour ticket, a national union front grouping to- gether labor, commercial and agricultural organization, won an overwhelming victory (97 per cent of the vote). The As- sembly was convened and Bourguiba elected presiding officer, but he resigned shortly to become Premier of the first Tunisian government. The principal task of the Assembly was to draft a constitu- tion, but as it got down to work it became evident that there was strong sentiment among the deputies and throughout the country to change the regime from a monarchy to a republic. In fact, the eventual disappearance of the Beylical system hed long been planned by Destourians and taken for granted by most Tunisians. There had never been any deep feeling among the people for it, although it had been accepted without rancor. But the whole political evolution of Tunisia, from the earliest |
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