Claim: Fouad Mebazaa has worked for the Chamber of Deputies, which is the lower chamber of the Parliament of Tunisia, several ministerial posts relating to youth, sports and culture and as a member of the Central Committee of the Constitutional Democratic Rally.
Evidence: After Tunisian independence in 1956, Mebazaa was elected to the Chamber of Deputies several times, starting in 1964. The Chamber of Deputies (Arabic: مجلس النواب‎ Majlis an-Nuwwāb, French: Chambre des députés) was the lower chamber of the Parliament of Tunisia, the bicameral legislative branch of the government of Tunisia. He was Governor-Mayor of Tunis from 1969 to 1973, occupied several ministerial posts relating to youth, sports, public health, culture and information during the 1970s and late 1980s, and was an ambassador in Geneva and Morocco during the 1980s. Mebazaa has been a member of the Central Committee of the Constitutional Democratic Rally since 1988.