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Hamed Karoui ( ar, حامد القروي) (30 December 1927 – 27 March 2020) was
He continued his primary and secondary studies in Sousse. At the age of 15, he joined Neo-Destour and campaigned in the ranks of the General Union of Tunisian Students (UGET) and the organization of Tunisian Scouts where, at the age of 17, he obtained the rank of district chief. He was also responsible for publishing the underground newspaper Al Kifah for the center of the country.
After graduating in June 1946, he began his graduate studies at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris where he obtained a doctorate and a specialty certificate in pneumo-phthisiology. During his studies, he was elected successively president of the Destourienne cell of Paris, president of the federation Destourienne of France and secretary-general of the UGET. He also represented the student movement at two international congresses held in Prague and Colombo.
Back in Tunisia in 1957, he was assigned to the regional hospital of Sousse to exercise the function of specialist physician in pneumology and head of department. He also presided over the sports clubs of the Stade Soussien in 1962-1963 and then the Étoile sportive du Sahel from 1963 to 1981.
Karoui died on 27 March 2020.
Prime Minister
A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...
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from 27 September 1989 to 17 November 1999. From 1986 to 1987 he was Minister of Youth and Sports and from 1988 to 1989 he was Minister of Justice. Born in Sousse, he was a member of the Constitutional Democratic Rally
The Democratic Constitutional Rally or Democratic Constitutional Assembly ( ar, التجمع الدستوري الديمقراطي ', french: Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique, sometimes also called Constitutional Democratic Rally in E ...
party, and the longest-serving president of Étoile Sportive du Sahel
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from 1961 to 1981.
Biography
He continued his primary and secondary studies in Sousse. At the age of 15, he joined Neo-Destour and campaigned in the ranks of the General Union of Tunisian Students (UGET) and the organization of Tunisian Scouts where, at the age of 17, he obtained the rank of district chief. He was also responsible for publishing the underground newspaper Al Kifah for the center of the country.
After graduating in June 1946, he began his graduate studies at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris where he obtained a doctorate and a specialty certificate in pneumo-phthisiology. During his studies, he was elected successively president of the Destourienne cell of Paris, president of the federation Destourienne of France and secretary-general of the UGET. He also represented the student movement at two international congresses held in Prague and Colombo.
Back in Tunisia in 1957, he was assigned to the regional hospital of Sousse to exercise the function of specialist physician in pneumology and head of department. He also presided over the sports clubs of the Stade Soussien in 1962-1963 and then the Étoile sportive du Sahel from 1963 to 1981.
Karoui died on 27 March 2020.
Political career
During the same period, Karoui was head of Sousse-Ville's Destourian bureau from 1957 and 1988 and was elected several times as a member of the Sousse Coordinating Committee. From 1957 to 1972, he was City Councilor before becoming mayor in 1985. In 1964, he was elected as deputy to represent the city of Sousse in the National Assembly and was re-elected in 1981, 1986 and 1989. In 1977, he was elected to be part of the Socialist Destourian Party central committee before being re-elected in 1979. From 1983 to 1986, he served as vice-president before he was appointed head of the Socialist Destourian Party, which later became the Constitutional Democratic Rally byZine El Abidine Ben Ali
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ( ar, زين العابدين بن علي, translit=Zayn al-'Ābidīn bin 'Alī; 3 September 1936 – 19 September 2019), commonly known as Ben Ali ( ar, بن علي) or Ezzine ( ar, الزين), was a Tunisian politician ...
on 17 October 1987.
Karoui joined the government by taking the helm of the Ministry of Youth and Sports from 7 April 1986, to 27 October 1987. After Ben Ali became president on 7 November 1987, he was appointed Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister, then Minister of justice on 24 July 1988.
On 27 September 1989, he became Prime Minister, before he was replaced by Mohamed Ghannouchi
Mohamed Ghannouchi ( ar, محمد الغنوشي ''Muhammad Al-Ghannushi''; born 18 August 1941) is a Tunisian politician who was Prime Minister of Tunisia from 1999 to 2011. Regarded as a technocrat, Ghannouchi was a long-standing figure in the ...
on 17 November 1999.
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* 1927 births 2020 deaths People from Sousse Prime Ministers of Tunisia Justice ministers of Tunisia Democratic Constitutional Rally politicians 20th-century Tunisian people 21st-century Tunisian people Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Tunisia {{Tunisia-politician-stub