The Independence of Tunisia from France was negotiated largely by the Neo Destour's Bourguiba.
The next year the Republic of Tunisia was constituted, which replaced the Beylical form of government.
Tunisia became a one-party state, with Neo Destour as the ruling party under Prime Minister and later President Habib Bourguiba.
This phase failed to fulfill expectations, however, and was discontinued in 1969 with the dismissal of Ahmad ben Salah as economics minister by President Bourguiba.
During its existence between 1964 and 1988, the Constitutional Socialist Party witnessed several shocks, the first of which resulted from its abandonment of the socialist experiment in the fall of 1969 without abandoning its name at that time..[2][3][4] The party was dissolved by President Ben Ali in 1988 and replaced by the Democratic Constitutional Rally.