Beni Ali Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/beni-ali/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Beni Ali Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/beni-ali/ 32 32 Tunisians vote for stability https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/tunisians-vote-stability/ Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/tunisians-vote-stability/ In what’s being seen as a vote for stability, Tunisians have returned Beji Caid Essebi as their first democratically elected president. The 88-year-old served as advisor to Habib Bourgiba and then as Interior and Foreign Ministers to Ben Ali who was ousted in the Arab Spring nearly five years ago. Beji Caid Essebi has also […]

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]]> In what’s being seen as a vote for stability, Tunisians have returned Beji Caid Essebi as their first democratically elected president.

The 88-year-old served as advisor to Habib Bourgiba and then as Interior and Foreign Ministers to Ben Ali who was ousted in the Arab Spring nearly five years ago.

Beji Caid Essebi has also been Tunisia’s parliamentary speaker.

His win with more than 55 percent of the popular vote follows the North African country’s first election that was not a foregone conclusion.

It caps Tunisia’s transition to democracy.

Essebi beat incumbent Moncef Marzouki in a run off.

After police used teargas to disperse demonstrators in the capital Tunis, Essebi went on television to say the country’s future lies in consensus.

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