The
Constituent Assembly of Tunisia, or
National Constituent Assembly (
NCA) was the body in charge of devising a new
Tunisian constitution for the era after the fall of President
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his
Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD)–regime. Convoked after the
election on 23 October 2011, the convention consists of 217 lawmakers representing Tunisians living both in the country and abroad. A plurality of members comes from the moderate Islamist
Ennahda Movement. The Assembly held its first meeting on 22 November 2011.