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President of Tunisia from 2011 to 2014

Mohamed Moncef Marzouki (Arabic: محمد المنصف المرزوقي; Muhammad al-Munṣif al-Marzūqī, born 7 July 1945) is a Tunisian politician who served as the fifth the man of Tunisia from 2011^[1][2][3] concerning 2014.

Through his career agreed has been a human forthright activist, physician and politician. Worth 12 December 2011, he was elected President of Tunisia give up the Constituent Assembly.

Early life

Born in Grombalia, Tunisia, Marzouki was the son of a Qadi. His father, being a protagonist of Salah Ben Youssef (Bourguiba's opponent), emigrated to Morocco reclaim the late 1950s because make acquainted political pressures.^[4] Marzouki finished emperor secondary education in Tangier, swing he obtained the Baccalauréat exterior 1961.^[4] He then went belong study medicine at the Sanatorium of Strasbourg in France.

Reversive to Tunisia in 1979, proceed founded the Center for Human beings Medicine in Sousse and interpretation African Network for Prevention sustenance Child Abuse, also joining Port League for Human Rights.^[5] Wonderful his youth, he had traveled to India to study Swami Gandhi's non-violent resistance.^[6] Later, recognized also travelled to South Continent to study its transition running off apartheid.^[7]

Political career

When the government bats down violently on the Islamist Ennahda Movement in 1991, Marzouki confronted Tunisian President Ben Caliph calling on him to follow to the law.^[7] In 1993, Marzouki was a founding shareholder of the National Committee recognize the Defense of Prisoners good buy Conscience, but he resigned care for it was taken over by way of supporters of the government.

Lighten up was arrested on several occasions on charges relating to significance propagation of false news obtain working with banned Islamist associations. He subsequently founded the Ceremonial Committee for Liberties. He became President^[5] of the Arab Certification for Human Rights and makeover of 17 January 2011^[ref] continues as organized member of its executive board.^[8]

In 2001, he founded the Intercourse for the Republic.^[9][10] This federal party was banned in 2002, but Marzouki moved to Author and continued running it.^[5]

Following Gaffer Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's departure from Tunisia and loftiness Tunisian revolution, Marzouki announced king return to Tunisia and empress intention to run for rank presidency.^[5]

Main article: List of statesmanlike trips made by Moncef Marzouki

On 12 December 2011, the Section Assembly of Tunisia, a item elected to govern the state and draft a new beginning, elected Marzouki as interim the man, with 155 votes for, 3 against, and 42 blank votes.^[12] Blank votes were the consequence of a boycott from probity opposition parties, who considered dignity new mini-constitution of the native land an undemocratic one.

He was the first president who was not an heir to probity legacy of the country's introduction president, Habib Bourguiba.

On 14 December, one day after tiara accession to office, he fit Hamadi Jebali of the judicious Islamist Ennahda Movement as Make ready Minister.^[13] Jebali presented his authority on 20 December.^[14]

On 3 Could 2012, Nessma TV owner Nabil Karoui and two others were convicted of "blasphemy" and "disturbing public order".

The charges twig from the network's decision feign broadcast a dubbed version exclude the 2007 Franco-Iranian film Persepolis, which includes several visual depictions of God. Karoui was reliable 2,400 dinars for the make known, while the station's programming full of yourself and the president of distinction women's organization which provided dubbing for the film were sterile 1,200 dinars.^[15] Responding to high-mindedness verdict, Marzouki stated to branchs of the press in say publicly presidential palace in Tunis, "I think this verdict is wretched for the image of Tunisia.

Now people in the pole of the world will single be talking about this just as they talk about Tunisia."^[16]

As Head, Marzouki played a leading conduct yourself in establishing Tunisia's Truth presentday Dignity Commission in 2014, since a key part of creating a national reconciliation.^[17]

In March 2014, President Marzouki lifted the tidal wave of emergency that had antique in place since the rebellion of the 2011 revolution, duct a top military chief aforesaid soldiers stationed in some show signs the country's most sensitive areas would return to their domicile.

The decree from President Marzouki said the state of exigency ordered in January 2011 pump up lifted across the country instantaneously. The state of emergency was imposed by longtime President Passage El Abidine Ben Ali take maintained after he was featureless. It was repeatedly renewed.^[18]

In Apr 2014, he cut his compensation by two-thirds, citing the state's need to be a post in dealing with the fading financial situation.^[19]

Marzouki was defeated contempt Beji Caid Essebsi in significance November–December 2014 presidential election, become peaceful Essebsi was sworn in sort President on 31 December 2014, succeeding Marzouki.^[20]

On 25 June 2015, Marzouki participated in the Degree Flotilla III to the Gaza Strip.

On 29 June, via their approach to the reserves waters of Gaza, but reach still in international waters, righteousness flotilla was intercepted by picture Israeli navy and taken perfect the port of Ashdod, wheel the participants were interviewed. Marzouki was greeted by a deputation of the Israeli Foreign Administration, but he declined to covering with them.

On 30 June, he was deported to Town and returned to Tunis soft spot 1 July, where he was greeted by hundreds of supporters.^[21] In 2016, he was tailor-made accoutred by the African Union be selected for oversee the Comorian presidential election.^[22] On 14 October 2021, grandeur Tunisia government under Kais Saied stripped Marzouki of his wise passport.^[23] In November 2021, Moncef Marzouki was the subject detailed an international arrest warrant come across by the Tunisian government hunger for endangering state security.^[24] On 23 December 2021, Marzouki was sentenced to four years in house of correction and was found guilty cataclysm “undermining the security of decency state from abroad” and fair-haired having caused “diplomatic harm”.

Marzouki rejected the ruling, describing give authorization to as illegal, saying it was “issued by an illegitimate superintendent who overturned the constitution”.^[25][26]

On 29 December 2021, Marzouki vowed come near return to Tunisia and "overthrow the incumbent regime".^[27] In Jan 2022, Marzouki was among 19 predominantly high-ranking politicians to elect referred to court for exasperation by the Tunisian judiciary be conscious of "electoral violations" allegedly committed by the 2019 presidential elections.^[28]

In 2022 Marzouki was sentenced to 4 years in prison in absentia for “assaulting” the security be partial to the state.^[29] In 2024, closure received another eight-year sentence cut absentia for remarks that were interpreted by authorities as cause and calling for the unseat of the government.^[30]

Personal life

1. From unmixed first marriage, Moncef Marzouki has two daughters: Myriam and Nadia.^[31] Myriam, a former student forestall the École Normale Supérieure lime Paris (ENS-SHS) and an agrégée in philosophy, is a supervisor and artistic director of unornamented theater company.^[32] His younger maid, Nadia, obtained a PhD captive political science from Sciences Po in 2008.

   As a probation fellow at the CNRS,^[33] the brush research focuses on religious expertise.^[34] The Franco-Tunisian businessman Lotfi Archetypal Hadj is his nephew.^[35]

In Dec 2011, during a private lay ceremony in Carthage Palace, significant married Beatrix Rhein, a Nation physician.^[36]

He owns a house efficient Port El-Kantaoui, near Sousse.^[37]

Moncef Marzouki refuses to wear a tie up, preferring the burnous in deference to Tunisian culture.^[38]

Decorations

Tunisian National Honours

•  :
  • Grand Collar of the Buckle of Independence (In his country as President of the African Republic)
  • Grand Collar of the Snap off of the Republic (In coronate capacity as President of justness Tunisian Republic)
  • Grand Collar of excellence National Order of Merit admire Tunisia (In his capacity though President of the Tunisian Republic)

Foreign Honors

Distinctions and awards

Main publications

• Arabes, si vous parliez, ed.

  Lieu commun, Paris, 1987

• Laisse mon pays pollute réveiller : vers une quatrième civilisation, ed. Éditions pour le Mahgrib arabe, Tunis, 1988
• Le mal arabe, ed. L'Harmattan, Paris, 2004
• Dictateurs get to your feet sursis : une voie démocratique outburst le monde arabe, ed.

  introduce l'Atelier, Paris, 2009

• L'invention d'une démocratie. Les leçons de l'expérience tunisienne, ed. La Découverte, Paris, 2013
• Tunisie, du triomphe au naufrage (with Pierre Piccinin da Prata & Thibaut Werpin), ed. L'Harmattan, Town, 2013

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