Moncef Marzouki

Moncef Marzouki (Arabic المنصف المرزوقي, al - Munsif al - Marzūqī ), full name Moncef ben Mohamed Bedoui - Marzouki (* July 7, 1945 in Grombalia ) is a Tunisian politician and physician. Marzouki was elected on December 12, 2011 by the Constituent Assembly for one year as President of Tunisia; but in fact he is still up to the Whale of a successor takes office (January 2014).

Life

In 1973, Marzouki received his medical degree from the University of Strasbourg, where he then worked as a medical assistant. In 1979 he returned to his home country and engaged a year later for the Ligue Tunisienne des droits de l' homme ( LTDH ), the Tunisian League of Human Rights, which he was president from 1989 to 1994. From 1981 to 2000 Marzouki worked as a professor of medicine at the University of Sousse.

1994 Marzouki spent four months in jail after he tried to stand in the presidential elections against Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

Marzouki founded after a flight to France in 2001, the leftist and by 2011 banned opposition party Congress for the Republic ( CPR).

On 17 January 2011, announced that he would run in the March announced for early elections for the office of President of Tunisia, which had become necessary in the course of the 2010-2011 unrest in Tunisia after fleeing of President Ben Ali, but then favor the election of a Constituent Assembly were returned.

After the election to the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia, 2011, after the election with 90 seats strongest party Ennahda and Congress agreed on 15 November to Marzouki as interim president for a year. On 12 December 2011, Marzouki was elected by the Constituent Assembly for one year as president of Tunisia. However, Marzouki confronted with numerous internal and external challenges.