Abdelwaheb Maatar is a Tunisian politician. He serves as the Minister of Training and Employment under Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. [1] [2] [3]
Abdelwaheb Maatar is a Tunisian politician. He serves as the Minister of Training and Employment under Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. [1] [2] [3]
Abdelwaheb Maatar was born on March 23, 1952, in Sfax. [2] [3] He received a diploma in Management from the National School of Administration in Tunis and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Tunis. [2] [3]
He is a lawyer and a Constitutional Law professor at the University of Tunis. [2]
He was involved with the Democratic Modernist Pole until he became a founding member of the Congress for the Republic (CPR) political party. [2] [3] He exposed the corruption of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and tried to challenge his re-election in 2004. [2] He serves as Vice-President of the International Association for the Support of Political Prisoners, and he is a founding member of the Tunisian Judicial Independence Center. [2] [3] He is also a fellow of the International Council on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. [2]
On 20 December 2011, he joined the Jebali Cabinet as Minister of Training and Employment. [2] He has been accused of nepotism. [4]
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