Back رئيس الجمهورية التونسية Arabic رئيس تونس ARZ Präsident der Tunesischen Republik German Tunisian presidentti Finnish Président de la République tunisienne French נשיא תוניסיה HE Aselway n tegduda tatunsit KAB 튀니지의 대통령 Korean Presiden Tunisia Malay Президент Туниса Russian

President of Tunisia

President of the Republic of Tunisia
رئيس الجمهورية التونسية
Presidential seal
Presidential standard
Incumbent
Kais Saied
since 23 October 2019
Executive branch of the Government of the Republic of Tunisia
Head of state of the Republic of Tunisia
StyleHis Excellency
TypeHead of state
Head of government (de facto)
ResidencePalace of the Republic, Carthage
Term lengthFive years, renewable once
Inaugural holderHabib Bourguiba
Formation25 July 1957 (1957-07-25)
SalaryUS$90,380 annually[1]
Websitewww.carthage.tn
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The president of Tunisia, officially the president of the Republic of Tunisia (Arabic: رئيس الجمهورية التونسية Reīs ej-Jumhūrīye et-Tūnsīye), is the head of state since the creation of the position on 25 July 1957. In this capacity, he exercises executive power with the assistance of a government headed by the prime minister in a presidential system. According to Article 87 of the 2022 Constitution, he is the commander-in-chief of the Tunisian Armed Forces.[2] Under the Constitution, the president is elected by direct universal suffrage for a term of five years, renewable once.

The first president of the Tunisian Republic was Habib Bourguiba,[3] who remained in power for 30 years until he was removed through the coup of 7 November 1987,[4] by his prime minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who appointed himself President of the Republic, and in turn remained in power for 23 years, until his fall in the Tunisian revolution on 14 January 2011.[5] He then appointed Fouad Mebazaa as interim president, until he handed over power on 13 December 2011 to the politician Moncef Marzouki,[6] the first democratic president in the country’s history, who was elected by the Constituent Assembly.[7]

Marzouki handed over power on 31 December 2014 to his successor, Beji Caid Essebsi, who won the 2014 presidential elections,[8] thus becoming the second directly democratically elected president in the history of Tunisia, until his death on 25 July 2019,[9] with Parliament Speaker Mohamed Ennaceur assuming the presidency temporarily until presidential elections were held.[10] Bourguiba and Ben Ali also headed the ruling party, called the Neo Destour, Socialist Destourian Party then the Democratic Constitutional Rally, from independence in 1956 until the Tunisian revolution in 2011, when the president of the republic must abandon his party status if he wins the presidency. The 2022 Tunisian constitutional referendum transformed Tunisia into a presidential republic, giving the president sweeping powers while largely limiting the role of the parliament. The current president of the Republic of Tunisia is Kais Saied, since 23 October 2019.[11]

  1. ^ "Après avoir fait appel au sens du sacrifice des Tunisiens, Kaïs Saïed va-t-il montrer l'exemple et réduire son salaire ?". 24 October 2019.
  2. ^ "La fonction exécutive - Constitution de la République Tunisienne 2022 - Tunisie". www.jurisitetunisie.com. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Habib Bourguiba | Tunisian Independence Leader & 1st President | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 16 February 2024. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  4. ^ "A COUP IS REPORTED IN TUNISIA". The New York Times. AP. 7 November 1987. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  5. ^ Wolf, Anne (2023). Ben Ali's Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-286850-3.
  6. ^ "Biographie de Monsieur Foued Mebazaa Président de la Chambre des Députés" (PDF). Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie. 16 January 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
  7. ^ Tunisian activist to serve as interim president, CBC News, 12 December 2011
  8. ^ "Essebsi elected Tunisian president with 55.68 percent". Reuters. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  9. ^ "Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi dies aged 92". France 24. 25 July 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  10. ^ "Tunisia parliament speaker Ennaceur to serve as temporary president". Reuters. 25 July 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  11. ^ Amara, Tarek (23 October 2019). "Political outsider Saied sworn in as Tunisia's president". Reuters. Retrieved 23 October 2019.

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