Rachid Sfar

Rachid Sfar ( born September 11, 1933, Mahdia ) is a Tunisian politician, political writer and former prime minister.

Study and work as a finance officer

His father Tahar Sfar was next to Habib Bourguiba in 1934 one of the founders of the Neo Destour party. After studying literature, law and economics at the Universities of Tunis and Paris and the French Tax Academy ( École nationale des impôts ) he enters the 1960 administrative service of the Ministry of Finance. In 1974, he eventually rises to the Secretary of the Treasury.

Minister under President Bourguiba

Between 1977 and 1986 passes Sfar then various ministries. In 1977 he was first Minister of Industry and Minister of Defense in 1979. In 1980, he is Minister of Public Health in the Cabinet of Mohamed Mzali. Later he took over the Ministry of National Economy and Minister of Finance in 1986.

Prime Minister (1986 to 1987)

On 8 July 1986 he was appointed by President Habib Bourguiba as the successor of Mohamed Mzali prime minister. As such, it should provide for a balanced budget and a strengthening of the economy. At this time, the foreign exchange reserves of the country had dropped to almost zero and the economy weakened. Under the pressure of Bourguiba and, given the rise of the Islamist movement thus no longer was the initiated by Mzali normalization of democracy at the forefront of government policy. Sfar contributed by the appointment of Zine el- Abidine Ben Ali to the indoor and Minister of State to whose rise at.

After a little more than a year in office, he was replaced on 2 October 1987 the current president Ben Ali as prime minister. However, Ben Ali Sfar Reserve left the offices in the, Parti Socialiste Destourien ' (PSD ) and the resulting later emerged, Rassemblement constitutionnel démocratique ' (RCD).

Subsequent political offices

From 1988 to 1992 he was Tunisian representative to the European Community ( EC). 1993 he was appointed President Ben Ali as president of a commission to control the management and finances. In 1997, he received a pension as a former prime minister. Sfar was a member until 2005, the chamber of the counselors, the, House of Lords ' of the Tunisian National Assembly.

Publications

  • Mondialisation, régulation et solidarité. Plea pour the Reformes international et un program de relance économique au profit de tous les pays. Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7384-7923-5
  • En attente d'une politique volonté plus forte. In: Confluences Méditerranée N ° 35 Automne 2000
Prime Minister of Tunisia Bahi Ladgham Hamed Karoui Mohamed Ghannouchi Beji Caid el Sebsi
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