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Béji Caïd Essebsi

Beji Caid Essebsi
الباجي قائد السبسي
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5th President of Tunisia
Assumed office
31 December 2014
Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa
Habib Essid
Youssef Chahed
Preceded by Moncef Marzouki
Prime Minister of Tunisia
In office
27 February 2011 – 24 December 2011
President Fouad Mebazaa (Acting)
Moncef Marzouki
Preceded by Mohamed Ghannouchi
Succeeded by Hamadi Jebali (as head of government)
President of Chamber of Deputies
In office
14 March 1990 – 9 October 1991
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Preceded by Slaheddine Baly
Succeeded by Habib Boularès
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
15 April 1981 – 15 September 1986
Prime Minister Mohammed Mzali
Rachid Sfar
Preceded by Hassen Belkhodja
Succeeded by Hédi Mabrouk
Personal details
Born Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi
(1926-11-29) 29 November 1926 (age 90)
Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
Political party Neo Destour/PSD/RCD (1941-2011)
Independent (2011-2012)
Call of Tunisia (2012-present)
Spouse(s) Chadlia Saïda Farhat
Children Amel
Mohamed Hafedh
Salwa
Khélil
Religion Islam

Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi (or es-Sebsi, Arabic: محمد الباجي قائد السبسي‎‎, Muhammad al-Bājī Qā’id as-Sibsī; About this sound pronunciation  born 29 November 1926) is a Tunisian politician who has been President of Tunisia since December 2014. Previously he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1981 to 1986 and as Prime Minister from February 2011 to December 2011.

Essebsi is the founder of the Nidaa Tounes political party, which won a plurality in the 2014 parliamentary election. In December 2014, he won the first regular presidential election following the Tunisian Revolution, becoming Tunisia's first freely and directly elected president.

Born in Sidi Bou Said to a family from the Tunisian landed élite, he is a great-grandson of Ismail Caïd Essebsi, a Sardinian kidnapped by Tunisian corsairs along the coasts of Sardinia at the beginning of the nineteenth century who became a mamluk leader raised with the ruling family. He was later recognized as a free man when he became an important member of the government.


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