Youssef Chahed

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Youssef Chahed (2016)

Youssef Chahed ( Arabic يوسف الشاهد, DMG Yūsuf aš-Šāhid ; born September 18, 1975 in Tunis ) is a Tunisian politician . From August 27, 2016 to February 27, 2020, he led the Tunisian government as Prime Minister .

Family, education and work

Chahed's grandmother Radhia Haddad was one of the first female members of the Tunisian parliament from the 1950s. She was one of the political greats of the Neo-Destour movement. He studied agricultural science at the Tunisian National Institute of Agriculture, which he graduated in 1998. He then continued his studies at the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon , which he completed in 1999 with a postgraduate diploma ( DEA ) in environmental and raw materials economics. In 2003 he received his degree in agricultural economics with the subject of the effects of liberalization of agricultural markets on the stock exchanges and on prosperityPhD at Jean-Christophe Bureau. Chahed was then a university lecturer in agricultural economics in France and visiting professor in Paris , Tokyo and São Paulo .

Chahed is married and has one daughter. He speaks Arabic, French, English and Italian. He has been a fan of the capital club Club Africain since childhood .

Political career

After the revolution in Tunisia in 2010/2011 and the overthrow of the autocrat Ben Ali , he returned to Tunis and went into politics. In 2012 he co-founded the social liberal party Al Joumhouri and in 2013 he joined the secular gathering party Nidaa Tounes founded by Beji Caid Essebsi , of which he is a member. After they won the first democratic parliamentary elections in Tunisia in 2014 , Chahed became State Secretary in the Essid cabinet in February 2015, responsible for fisheries. After a cabinet reshuffle, he became head of the newly created Ministry of Local Affairs on January 6, 2016.

After the Assembly of Representatives of the Government under Prime Minister Habib Essid expressed suspicion on August 3, 2016, Essebsi, who was elected President of Tunisia in 2014 , proposed Chahed as the new Prime Minister (Art. 99 para. 2 and Art. 89 of the Constitution ) . He put together a new government and was trusted by the People's Representatives' Assembly on August 27, 2016, so that he has been in office since then (Art. 89 Para. 5 of the Constitution). At Essebsi's request, an all-party government was formed. The generation change associated with this - Chahed was 41 years old when appointed, Essebsi 89 - and his personal integrity were also welcomed internationally. His (distant) relationship with President Essebsi led to criticism of his appointment.

On July 15, 2018, President Beji Caid Essebsi sharply attacked Prime Minister Chahed and indirectly asked him to resign.

In the first round of the 2019 presidential election , he finished fifth with 7.4% of the vote and thus did not make it to the runoff election .

Fonts

  • Mesure de l'impact de la liberalization des marches agricoles sur les echanges et le bien-être (dissertation).

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Ridha Kefi: La "présidente des femmes" n'est plus. In: Jeune Afrique , October 27, 2003 (French).
  2. ↑ Martin Gehlen : The man for the jerk in Tunisia. In: Die Zeit , August 29, 2016.
  3. ↑ Martin Gehlen : The man for the jerk in Tunisia. In: Die Zeit , August 29, 2016.
  4. ↑ Bien qu'il soit clubiste, Chahed soutient les Espérantistes , November 8, 2018 (French).
  5. ^ Youssef Chahed: new government will be political, including national experts. In: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse , August 3, 2016 (English).
  6. ^ Tunisie: Youssef Chahed chargé de former un gouvernement d'union nationale. In: Jeune Afrique , August 3, 2016 (French); Alexander Göbel: New head of government in Tunisia: young and with integrity, but ... In: Tagesschau.de , August 3, 2016.
  7. ↑ spiegel.de: President urges head of government to resign
  8. ^ Elections presidential. tap.info.tn (French), accessed on September 20, 2019
  9. ↑ Presentation of the dissertation on Theses.fr (French).
personal data
SURNAME Chahed, Youssef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 18th September 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis