General elections were held in

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on 24 October 1999 to elect a

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and

Chamber of Deputies The chamber of deputies is the lower house in many bicameral legislatures and the sole house in some unicameral legislatures. Description Historically, French Chamber of Deputies was the lower house of the French Parliament during the Bourbon ...

. For the first time ever there was more than one candidate in the presidential election; the longstanding requirement for prospective candidates to get at least 30 endorsements had been lifted months earlier. However, incumbent

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ( ar, زين العابدين بن علي, translit=Zayn al-'Ābidīn bin 'Alī; 3 September 1936 – 19 September 2019), commonly known as Ben Ali ( ar, بن علي) or Ezzine ( ar, الزين), was a Tunisian politician ...

easily won a third five-year term with a reported 99.4 percent of the vote. His

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won 148 of the 183 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. Voter turnout was 92%.Tunisia: Elections held in 1994
Inter-Parliamentary Union

Results

President

Parliament

References

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Elections in Tunisia

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Presidential elections in Tunisia Tunisian general election