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| 1986, Nov. 1 |
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| Opposition groups boycotted nationwide parliamentary elections. | 1 |
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| 1987, Nov. 7 |
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| Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed Pres. Habib Bourguiba and assumed office as the new president. | 2 |
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| 1988, July 12 |
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| The constitution was amended to limit the president to a maximum of two terms in office. | 3 |
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| 1989, April 2 |
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| In nationwide elections, Pres. Ben Ali received 99 percent of the vote. The ruling party, the Constitutional Democratic Rally (renamed in Feb. 1988), won every seat in the Parliament. Municipal elections, boycotted by the opposition, resulted in a similar landslide. | 4 |
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| 1992, Jan. 3 |
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| Tunisia's major Islamicist movement, al-Nahda, formed a political wing, the National Rally for Protecting the People's Choice. | 5 |
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| 1999, Oct. 24 |
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| Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was reelected to his third 5-year presidential term. In the first multiparty elections in Tunisian history, the ruling Constitutional Democratic Assembly (CDA) won 148 of 182 available seats in the National Assembly. | 6 |
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