Elie Ferzli ( ar, إيلي الفرزلي; born 22 November 1949 in Zahle,

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

) is a Lebanese and

Eastern Orthodox Christian Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or "canonical") ...

politician. He served as Information Minister and

Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon The Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon is the second highest-ranking official of the Lebanese Parliament. National Pact Though the constitution does not require it, an unwritten understanding between the Maronite, Sunni, Shia, Greek Or ...

in the early 2000s. He was succeeded by as deputy speaker Farid Makari in 2005. He expressed pro-Syrian sentiments during the

Cedar Revolution The Cedar Revolution ( ar, ثورة الأرز, ''thawrat al-arz'') or Independence Uprising ( ar, انتفاضة الاستقلال, ''intifāḍat al-istiqlāl'') was a chain of demonstrations in Lebanon (especially in the capital Beirut) trig ...

. On 23 May 2018, he was reelected to parliament, and took again the seat of

. In 2021, he skipped the line for vaccinations against COVID-19, taking the vaccine despite not being in neither the correct age group nor the correct risk group. In May 2022, he lost his parliamentary seat despite several attempts at manipulating the results.

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* 1949 births Eastern Orthodox Christians from Lebanon Information ministers of Lebanon Lebanese University alumni Living people Members of the Parliament of Lebanon People from Zahle {{Lebanon-politician-stub