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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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Biography

Early life

Ridha Saidi was born on 24 November 1962 in

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''Tunisia Live'', 28 December 2011 He graduated from the Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis and received a master's degree in Quality Management and Productivity. While at university, he was a founding member of the

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(UGET). In 1985, he joined the Islamist Tendency Movement, now known as the

Ennahda Movement 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 ...

. He was jailed from 1991 to 2007 for his political activities.

Career in energy

He worked as an engineer for the

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(STEG). In 2009, he wrote the article, ''Economie nationale : réalité et perspectives''.

Minister

On 20 December 2011, after former President

Zine 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 ...

was deposed, 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 dr ...

as Minister of Economy. In March 2012, he vowed to track down

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to boost the Tunisian economy. In May 2012, he criticized

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for downgrading Tunisia's economy unfairly.Ridha Saidi accuse certains experts de Standard & Poor's d'avoir des positions politiques déterminées
''Business News'', 25 May 2012

References

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