Elyes Fakhfakh ( ar, إلياس الفخفاخ; born 1972) is a

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n politician. He served as the Minister of Tourism and, starting on 19 of December 2012, as the Minister of Finances as well, under Prime Minister

Hamadi Jebali Hamadi Jebali ( ar, حمادي الجبالي, '; born 12 January 1949) is a Tunisian engineer, Muslim politician and journalist who was Prime Minister of Tunisia from December 2011 to March 2013. He was the Secretary-General of the Ennahda Move ...

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Elyes Fakhfakh
#'Tunisia Live'', 22 December 2011 He served as the Prime Minister of Tunisia from 27 February to 2 September 2020.

Biography

Elyes Fakhfakh was born in

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in 1972. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the

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and graduated in 1995. Then he studied Master's at the

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. Later on, he had a Master's degree in Business Administration at

University of Évry Val d'Essonne The Université d'Évry Val-d'Essonne (''Université d'Évry Val-d'Essonne'' or UEVE) is a French public university located in Évry-Courcouronnes, Île-de-France, and is one of the founding members of Paris-Saclay University. The UEVE is expecte ...

. In 1999, at the age of 27, he started his career as an engineer for the French oil corporation

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He worked for Total in Europe, America and Asia, and from 2004 onwards in Poland. In 2004, he joined Cortrel, a Tunisian

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manufacturing company, and later became its Deputy Director General. He is a member of

Ettakatol The Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties ( ar, التكتل الديمقراطي من أجل العمل والحريات, ' ; french: link=no, Forum démocratique pour le travail et les libertés), also referred to as Ettakatol or by its Fre ...

. On 20 December 2011, he joined the

Jebali Cabinet The first cabinet of Tunisian Head of Government Hamadi Jebali was presented on 20 December 2011. Jebali has been appointed by interim President Moncef Marzouki, who had been elected by the National Constituent Assembly, a body constituted to ...

as Minister of Tourism. On 19 December 2012, he also took charge of the Ministry of Finance. He is successively assisted by two secretaries of state: Slim Besbes and Chedly Abed. In the 2014 Tunisian parliamentary election, his party

lost all of its previous seats. His party did even worse in the 2019 Tunisian parliamentary election by only getting 0.26 percent of the votes, and currently has no seat in the

Assembly of the Representatives of the People The Assembly of the People's Representatives ( ar, مجلس نواب الشعب ', french: Assemblée des représentants du peuple; ARP) is Tunisia's legislative branch of government. The unicameral Assembly replaced the Constituent Assembly and ...

. He had participated in

2019 Tunisian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Tunisia on 15 September 2019, the second direct vote for the presidency since the 2011 revolution. The elections had originally been planned for 17 and 24 November, but were brought forward after the death of ...

and got 0.34% of votes in the first round. On 20 January 2020, he was appointed head of government by President

Kais Saied Kais Saied ( ar, قَيس سَعيد; born 22 February 1958) is a Tunisian politician, jurist, and retired law professor, and currently the 8th President of Tunisia since October 2019. He was president of the Tunisian Association of Constitutiona ...

after consultations with all political parties, 10 days after the previous prime minister-designate,

Habib Jemli Habib Jemli or Habib Jomli ( ar, الحبيب الجملي; born 28 March 1959). is a Tunisian politician. He was the Secretary of State to the Minister of Agriculture from 2011 to 2014. He is an independent but is close to Ennahdha. He was appo ...

, failed to gain the confidence of parliament. The Fakhfakh government gained the confidence of parliament on 27 February 2020. The Fakhfakh government consisted of 32 members of which six members were from

Ennahda The Ennahda Movement ( ar, حركة النهضة, Ḥarakatu n-Nahḍah; french: link=no, Mouvement Ennahdha), also known as the Renaissance Party or simply known as Ennahda, is a self-defined Islamic democratic political party in Tunisia. Fou ...

(Islamist, 54 out of 217 seats in Parliament), three from

Democratic Current The Democratic Current ( ar, التيّار الديمُقراطي, at-Tayyār ad-Dīmuqrāṭī) is a social-democratic political party in Tunisia that was founded in 2013. The party was initiated by the former secretary-general of the Congres ...

(social democrat, 22 MPs), two from People's Movement (15 MPs), two from

Tahya Tounes Tahya Tounes (Arabic: تحيا تونس , French: ''Vive la Tunisie'') is a secular party in Tunisia ) , image_map = Tunisia location (orthographic projection).svg , map_caption = Location of Tunisia in northern Afric ...

(liberal, 14 MPs), one member from

Tunisian Alternative Tunisian Alternative ( ar, البديل التونسي, ''al-Badil Ettounsi'') is a Tunisian political party founded on 29 March 2017 by former prime minister Mehdi Jomaa. History The party started as a think tank A think tank, or policy ...

(Liberal, three MPs), one from

Nidaa Tounes Nidaa Tounes ( ar, حركة نداء تونس ', french: Appel de la Tunisie; usually translated as "Call of Tunisia", "Call for Tunisia", or "Tunisia's Call") is a big tent secularist political party in Tunisia. After being founded in 2012, ...

(Liberal, three MPs) and 17

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s. In June 2020, according to

Al Jazeera Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera ...

, "an independent member of Parliament published documents indicating that Fakhfakh owned shares in companies that won deals worth 44 million dinars". Fakhfakh denied any wrongdoing. On 15 July 2020, he resigned.

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