Tunis ta sami 'yanci daga Faransa a ranar 20 ga Maris, 1956 tare da Habib Bourguiba a matsayin Firayim Minista. An yi bikin ranar 20 ga Maris a kowace shekara a matsayin Ranar Independenceancin Tunisiya. Bayan shekara guda, an ayyana Tunisia a matsayin jamhuriya, tare da Bourguiba a matsayin Shugaban farko. Daga' yanci a 1956 har zuwa juyin juya halin 2011, gwamnati da Rukunin Demokradiyya na Tsarin Mulki (RCD), tsohon Neo Destour da Jam'iyyar Socialist Destourian, sun kasance daya. Bayan rahoton da Amnesty International ta bayar, likitocin The Guardian sun kira Tunisia "ɗaya daga cikin ƙasashe mafi zamani amma masu zalunci a duniyar Larabawa".A watan Nuwamba 1987, likitoci sun ayyana Bourguiba ba shi da ikon yin mulki kuma, a cikin juyin mulki na jini, Firayim Minista El Zine Ali Abidine ya zama shugaban kasa daidai da Mataki na 57 na kundin tsarin mulki. An yi bikin ranar haihuwar Ben Ali, ranar 7 ga Nuwamba, 2011 a matsayin ranar hutu na farko na Tunisiya.
20 ga Maris, shekara ta 1956