Mustapha Ben Jafar
Mustapha Ben Jafar مصطفى بن جعفر | |
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Assembly of the Representatives of the People) | |
Minister of Health | |
In office 17 January 2011 – 27 January 2011 | |
President | Fouad Mebazaa (Acting) |
Prime Minister | Mohamed Ghannouchi |
Preceded by | Mondher Zenaidi |
Succeeded by | Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane |
Secretary General of Ettakatol | |
Assumed office 25 October 2002 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Personal details | |
Born | Tunis, Tunisia | 8 December 1940
Political party | Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties |
Mustapha Ben Jafar (
Biography
Ben Jafar was born in 1940 in Tunis. He attended Sadiki College from 1950–1956, then studied medicine in France to become a radiologist. In 1970 he returned to Tunisia, joined the University of Tunis's medical faculty and worked also at the university hospital. In 1976 he was one of the founders of a weekly opinion magazine and an organization that evolved into the Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH).
In 1978 he joined others to start a political party, the Movement of Socialist Democrats (MDS). The MDS was the largest opposition party as of 1991 and the ruling party made an apparent attempt to work with the MDS as a "participatory opposition." Ben Jafar was the secretary-general of the MDS in 1992, and ran for the top MDS office, but lost to Mohamed Moadda, and resigned from the party because it seemed to have cooperated with the ruling party so much (receiving a government subsidy and accommodations) and achieved so little.[1]
In 1994 Ben Jafar founded the Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties party (abbreviated FDTL and also called Ettakatol). It was not legally recognized until 2002. He attempted to run for the presidency in 2009 as the FDTL candidate but was disqualified and was in any case widely understood to have no chance to win against the established authoritarian incumbent president Ben Ali.[2]
Post-revolutionary life
Turbulent protests in January 2011 drove President Ben Ali from the country, and Prime Minister
In the
Published works
- Un si long chemin vers la démocratie, ed. Nirvana, Tunis, 2014
References
- ^ Murphy, Emma. Economic and political change in Tunisia: from Bourguiba to Ben Ali. pp. 209-211.
- ^ Beaugé, Florence. "En Tunisie, l'opposant Mustapha Ben Jaafar candidat à la présidentielle" Le Monde 25 September 2009.(fr)
- ^ Belaid, Fethi; AFP staff (17 January 2011). "Photo of Mustapha Ben Jaafar plus caption". Agence France-Presse, Getty Images. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
- ^ Maktabi, Rima. "Troops battle ex-ruler's bodyguards in Tunisia." CNN.com, Jan 16 2011.
- ^ Belaid, Fethi; AFP staff (28 January 2011). "Photo of Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane plus caption". Agence France-Presse, Getty Images. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
- ^ Houssem Sta Ali. Who will be Tunisia's next president? Archived 2012-03-09 at the Wayback Machine. Tunisialive web site. 27 Oct 2011.
- ^ Sadok Ayari, "Mustapha Ben Jaafar Elected President of the Constituent Assembly" Archived 2012-01-09 at the Wayback Machine, Tunisia Live, 22 November 2011.
External links
- Personal profile of Mustapha Ben Jafar on the website of the Tunisian Assembly of the Representatives of the People (in French)