Edgar Jean Faure was a French politician,lawyer,essayist,historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956. Prior to his election to the National Assembly for Jura under the Fourth Republic in 1946,he was a member of the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN) in Algiers (1943–1944). A Radical,Faure was married to writer Lucie Meyer. In 1978,he was elected to the Académie Française.
Pierre Isaac Isidore Mendès France was a French politician who served as prime minister of France for eight months from 1954 to 1955. As a member of the Radical Party,he headed a government supported by a coalition of Gaullists (RPF),moderate socialists (UDSR),Christian democrats (MRP) and liberal-conservatives (CNIP). His main priority was ending the Indochina War,which had already cost 92,000 lives,with 114,000 wounded and 28,000 captured on the French side. Public opinion polls showed that,in February 1954,only 7% of the French people wanted to continue the fight to regain Indochina out of the hands of the Communists,led by Ho Chi Minh and his Viet Minh movement. At the 1954 Geneva Conference,Mendès France negotiated a deal that gave the Viet Minh control of Vietnam north of the seventeenth parallel,and allowed him to pull out all French forces. He is considered one of the most prominent statesmen of the French Fourth Republic.
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali,commonly known as Ben Ali or Ezzine,was a Tunisian politician who served as the 2nd president of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011. In that year,during the Tunisian revolution,he fled to Saudi Arabia.
Habib Bourguiba was a Tunisian lawyer,nationalist leader and statesman who led the country from 1956 to 1957 as the prime minister of the Kingdom of Tunisia (1956–1957) then as the first president of Tunisia (1957–1987). Prior to his presidency,he led the nation to independence from France,ending the 75-year-old protectorate and earning the title of "Supreme Combatant".
Mongi Slim,was a Tunisian diplomat who became the first African to become the President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1961. He received a degree from the faculty of law of the University of Paris. He was twice imprisoned by the French during the Tunisian struggle for independence.
Michèle Yvette Marie-Thérèse Jeanne Honorine Alliot-Marie,known in France as MAM,is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from France. She is a member of the Republicans,part of the European People's Party. A member of all right-wing governments formed in the 1980s,1990s and 2000s,she was the first woman in France to hold the portfolios of Defense (2002–2007),the Interior (2007–2009) and Foreign Affairs (2010–2011);she has also been in charge of Youth and Sports (1993–1995) and Justice (2009–2010),and was granted the honorary rank of Minister of State in her last two offices.
Tunis University is a public university in Tunis,Tunisia. It was founded in 1960 on the basis of earlier educational establishments.
The Tunisian Revolution was an intensive 28-day campaign of civil resistance. It included a series of street demonstrations which took place in Tunisia,and led to the ousting of longtime president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011. It eventually led to a thorough democratization of the country and to free and democratic elections,which had led to people believing it was the only successful movement in the Arab Spring.
Fouad Mebazaa is a Tunisian politician who was the president of Tunisia from 15 January 2011 to 13 December 2011. He was active in Neo Destour prior to Tunisian independence,served as Minister of Youth and Sports,Minister of Public Health,and Minister of Culture and Information,and was Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of Tunisia from 1991 to 2011.
Mohamed Ridha Chalghoum is a Tunisian politician. He was the Minister of Finance from 2010 to 2011 and from 2017 to 2020.
Mondher Zenaidi is a Tunisian politician. He served in the government of Tunisia as Minister of Public Health from 2007 to 2011. Prior to this,he was Secretary of State for Trade and Industry,Minister of Transport,and Minister of Commerce.
Abdelkrim Zbidi is a Tunisian politician.
Mohamed Naceur Ammar is a Tunisian politician. He served as the Tunisian Minister of Communication Technologies under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from January 2010 to January 2011.
Taieb Hadhri served as the Tunisian Minister of Scientific Research,Technology,and Expertise Development under former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Beji Caid Essebsi was a Tunisian politician who served as the 6th president of Tunisia from 31 December 2014 until his death on 25 July 2019. Previously,he served as the minister of foreign affairs from 1981 to 1986 and as the prime minister from February 2011 to December 2011.
During the Tunisian Revolution President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunisia on 14 January 2011 Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi then briefly took over as Acting President. On the morning of 15 January 2011 Ghannouchi had handed over the presidency to Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Fouad Mebazaa,This was done after the head of Tunisia's Constitutional Council,Fethi Abdennadher declared that Ghannouchi did not have right to power and confirmed Fouad Mebazaa as Acting President under Article 57 of the 1959 Constitution. Ghannouchi returning to his previous position as prime minister was confirmed as prime minister by Mebazaa and formed a new national unity government on 17 January 2011 that included members of opposition parties,civil society representatives,and even a blogger who only a week previous had been imprisoned by the regime of the deposed President. On 27 February 2011 the government was dissolved and replaced by a new government led by Beji Caid Essebsi.
Mohamed Jegham,,is a Tunisian politician and businessman.
Ridha Saidi is a Tunisian politician. He serves as the Minister of Economy under Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali.
Nejla Moalla Harrouch,born on 23 April 1963,is an engineer and a Tunisian politician. She occupied the position of Minister of Trade and Handicrafts from January 2014 until February 2015. Her successors are Ridha Lahouel for Trade and Selma Elloumi Rekik for Handicrafts.
Hichem Mechichi is a Tunisian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Tunisia,from September 2020 to July 2021,when he was unconstitutionally dismissed by President Kais Saied who dissolved the parliament,the higher council of justice,the elected county councils,the anti-corruption commission,and monopolized all state powers.
