Fouad Mebazaa

Fouad Mebazaa (Arabic فؤاد المبزع, DMG Fu ʾ al - AD Mabaza ʿ; * June 16, 1933 in Tunis ) is a Tunisian politician. He was from 2009 until the fall of Zine el- Abidine Ben Ali, President of the Tunisian Chamber of Deputies and kommissarisches January 15, 2011 to December 12, 2011 head of state of Tunisia.

Youth, education and family

After attending high school in Tunis Mebazaa studied in Paris law and political sciences. He has a university degree as a license for law and economics. He then worked in the private sector and the National Security Agency, which he headed 1965-1967.

Party

In 1954 he was a member of the Cellule Neo - Destour of Aix -Marseille (France ) Region, 1955 Secretary General of the party in La Marsa. In 1956 he was president of the Cellule Constitutionnelle in Montpellier, in 1964 a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Party Démocrate (PSD) and 1974-1981 Member of the Political Bureau of the party. In 1988 he was elected member of the Central Committee of the Constitutional Democratic Rally Party (RCD), re-elected in 1993. In 1997 he became a member of the Politburo of the RCD. Meanwhile, he has withdrawn from the RCD.

Member of Parliament

Mebazaa was since 1964 deputy in the Tunisian parliament. In 2009 he was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies of the bicameral parliament.

Public offices

In 1969, Mebazaa was elected mayor of Tunis, an office which he held until 1973.

On November 30, 1973, he was sworn in as Minister of Sport and Youth in the cabinet of President Habib Bourguiba. After five years, on 13 September 1978 he took over the leadership of the Ministry of Health as a minister. After just over a year, on 7 November 1979, he was Minister of Culture and Information. He remained there two years, until January 2, 1981.

In the period 1981-1986 Mebazaa served as Ambassador of Tunisia to the United Nations in Geneva. From 1986 to 1987 he was also his country's ambassador in Morocco. Most recently, he took between 27 October and 7 November 1987 again for a short time, the Tunisian Ministry of Sport.

From 1975 to 1980 he was mayor of La Marsa. 1995 Mebazaa was elected mayor of Carthage, a post which he held until 1998.

President

Article 57 of the Tunisian Constitution provides that the President of the Tunisian Parliament whose term of office accepts the case of permanent absence of the President. After the unrest in Tunisia in January 2011 and the resignation of President Zine el- Abidine Ben Ali Fouad Mebazaa was sworn in at the decision of the Constitutional Court on 15 January 2011 as president of Tunisia. Previously Mohamed Ghannouchi had taken office a short time. Mebazaa has prepared interim presidency the elections.