On 23 October 2011, Labidi-Maïza was elected to the Tunisian Constituent Assembly as a representative of the Ennahda Movement for Tunisians living abroad. She noted that she benefited from a clause that required every other candidate to be a woman. On 22 November she became the First Deputy Speaker of the assembly after receiving 142 out of the 214 votes.Mehrezia Labidi-Maiza: The First Vice-President of the Assembly , Tunisia Live, Retrieved 7 December 2015 In 2012 Labidi-Maïza was described as the "most senior elected woman in the Middle East".Mehdi Hasan talks to Tunisian politician Mehrezia Labidi on gender, democracy, and the Arab Spring, Mehdi Hasan, 18 April 2012, New Statesman, Retrieved 8 December 2015
