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The '''Chamber of Deputies''' ({{lang-ar|مجلس النواب}} ''Majlis an-Nuwwāb'', {{lang-fr|Chambre des députés}}) is the [[lower chamber]] of the [[Parliament of Tunisia]], the [[bicameralism|bicameral]] [[legislature|legislative branch]] of the government of [[Tunisia]]. It has 189 seats and members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms. 20% of the seats are reserved for the opposition. Elections are held in the last 30 days of each five-year term. To be eligible for office, one must be a voter with a Tunisian mother or father and be at least 23 years old the day candidacy is announced.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/Globalex/Tunisia.htm |title=A Guide to the Tunisian Legal System |author=Dahmène Touchent |date=August 2005 |work= |publisher=New York University School of Law |accessdate=3 November 2010}}</ref> Elections were most recently held in October 2009.
Under the [[Constitution of Tunisia|original Tunisian constitution]], the Chamber of Deputies theoretically possessed great lawmaking powers, and even had the right to [[motion of no confidence|censure]] the government by a two-thirds majority. In practice, the body was dominated by the [[Democratic Constitutional Rally]] (formerly the Neo-Destour Party and Socialist Destour Party) from independence until the [[2011 Tunisian revolution]]. The Neo-Destour won every seat in the Chamber at the first elections in 1956, and continued to be the sole party in the legislature until all other parties were banned in 1963. Even
Elections held on October 24, 2004 and October 25, 2009, resulted in substantial majorities for the Democratic Constitutional Rally. The 2009 election yielded the following results:
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