CONSTITUTIONAL AND CHAOS IN THE LOSS OF THIS LEGITIMACY OF ANY POLITICAL CLASS, TUNISIA CAN COUNT ON THAT GOOD ONE MAN WILL BOTH SURPRISED THAT THE TUNISIAN THEMSELVES BY ITS OWN APPOINTMENT. THE NEW PRIME MINISTER WILL NOT RESPOND TO THE CHOICE OF THE PEOPLE'S ASPIRATIONS FOR A TRUE DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION. (EPICENTER)
The Tunisians from a family of farmers has been, successively, under Habib Bourguiba, director of the Regional Government, Director General of National Security, Minister of Interior, Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister Minister of Defence, Ambassador in Paris, Foreign Minister and, finally, Ambassador to Bonn. Under Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, he has chaired for one year, the Chamber of Deputies (1990-1991). "I've always been a man free and independent," he says. After twenty-five years ago in the heart of power? Answer: "The political responsibilities that I assumed were more or less long parenthesis in my legal career. "What record is it? "At the end of my last term as MP in 1994 I had the feeling of not being able to change much in the political system. But I left the political scene without regret. And without nostalgia. I accept fully that everything I did, "he assures. Beji Caid
Essebsi receives me in his office in the rue Alain-Savary, Tunis, which he shares with his younger brother, Slaheddine Kingpin Essebsi famous corporate lawyer. At almost 80 years, this little man alert to the strong verb and the light (green) Sparkling me points to his black robe hanging behind his desk: "Actually, I never ceased to exercise my profession of lawyer. "
Father of two boys and two girls, who are respectively a merchant, farmer, architect and company manager, the former head of the Tunisian diplomacy continues to advocate, from time to time, the Court of Appeal of Tunis. But only the arbitration cases interest him now.
Born November 29, 1926 in Tunis, Kingpin Essebsi graduated from law school in Paris. Barrister in Tunis in 1952, he began his career in advocating trials of activists of the Neo-Destour, the Nationalist Party. Just after independence in 1956, he joined the government as an advisor to Bourguiba became Prime Minister before becoming the head of state after the proclamation of the Republic, in July 1957. "Since I've never left Bourguiba," he recalls, even if its relations with the man who will soon be known as Supreme Commander have been punctuated by thunderstorms passengers and serious sulking.
Thus, during the congress of the Socialist Party Destourian (DSP), the single party in October 1971, Essebsi Kingpin, who is now Ambassador in Paris, is among supporters of a more democratic functioning of the state. After hesitating a moment, Bourguiba ruled in favor of the hardliners of the PSD led by former Prime Minister Hedi Nouira. On 12 January 1972, the diplomat, who resigned from his position meanwhile, left Paris for Tunis, not without having published the same day, an article in Le Monde entitled "The reasons for a departure." Three days later, he argues, as if nothing had happened, the court of Tunis.
The first crossing of the desert Kingpin Essebsi lasts until 1980. That year, Mohamed Mzali, who succeeded as prime minister Hedi Nouira, initiates a start-to policy. DSP congress in September 1981, Bourguiba make concessions, "I see no objection to the establishment of pluralism."
Essebsi Kingpin, who has rejoined the government as foreign minister in April 1981, quit his new position in September 1986. During these six years he has been facing several crises, including the arrival of the Palestinians - forced out of Beirut - in Tunis in 1982, the bombing of the village of Hammam-Chott, south of Tunis, by Israeli warplanes in 1985, not to mention the constant mood swings Gaddafi ... The high point of his career as head of diplomacy remain, however, the vote of the UN resolution condemning Israeli aggression against Tunisia. "The Americans, who used to veto any resolution against the Jewish state, preferred for the first time in UN history - and the last to date - to abstain" tells Kingpin Essebsi. Bourguiba, who wanted nothing so much, then sent him a telegram of congratulations before planning his return to Tunis, a luncheon in his honor at the palace of Carthage. It is not proud.
For leading the foreign policy of his country for six years, met with heads of state and attended numerous international meetings, Kingpin Essebsi remained attentive to developments in the world. He reads a lot, looks at policy issues and regularly lectures on the new U.S. strategy in the world. In interviews he gave, from time to other media, it does not merely bear witness to the past: he also gives his views on current developments in the Maghreb and the Middle East. The former Tunisian foreign minister could hold forth for hours on this subject, which fascinates him.
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The Tunisians from a family of farmers has been, successively, under Habib Bourguiba, director of the Regional Government, Director General of National Security, Minister of Interior, Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister Minister of Defence, Ambassador in Paris, Foreign Minister and, finally, Ambassador to Bonn. Under Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, he has chaired for one year, the Chamber of Deputies (1990-1991). "I've always been a man free and independent," he says. After twenty-five years ago in the heart of power? Answer: "The political responsibilities that I assumed were more or less long parenthesis in my legal career. "What record is it? "At the end of my last term as MP in 1994 I had the feeling of not being able to change much in the political system. But I left the political scene without regret. And without nostalgia. I accept fully that everything I did, "he assures. Beji Caid
Essebsi receives me in his office in the rue Alain-Savary, Tunis, which he shares with his younger brother, Slaheddine Kingpin Essebsi famous corporate lawyer. At almost 80 years, this little man alert to the strong verb and the light (green) Sparkling me points to his black robe hanging behind his desk: "Actually, I never ceased to exercise my profession of lawyer. "
Father of two boys and two girls, who are respectively a merchant, farmer, architect and company manager, the former head of the Tunisian diplomacy continues to advocate, from time to time, the Court of Appeal of Tunis. But only the arbitration cases interest him now.
Born November 29, 1926 in Tunis, Kingpin Essebsi graduated from law school in Paris. Barrister in Tunis in 1952, he began his career in advocating trials of activists of the Neo-Destour, the Nationalist Party. Just after independence in 1956, he joined the government as an advisor to Bourguiba became Prime Minister before becoming the head of state after the proclamation of the Republic, in July 1957. "Since I've never left Bourguiba," he recalls, even if its relations with the man who will soon be known as Supreme Commander have been punctuated by thunderstorms passengers and serious sulking.
Thus, during the congress of the Socialist Party Destourian (DSP), the single party in October 1971, Essebsi Kingpin, who is now Ambassador in Paris, is among supporters of a more democratic functioning of the state. After hesitating a moment, Bourguiba ruled in favor of the hardliners of the PSD led by former Prime Minister Hedi Nouira. On 12 January 1972, the diplomat, who resigned from his position meanwhile, left Paris for Tunis, not without having published the same day, an article in Le Monde entitled "The reasons for a departure." Three days later, he argues, as if nothing had happened, the court of Tunis.
The first crossing of the desert Kingpin Essebsi lasts until 1980. That year, Mohamed Mzali, who succeeded as prime minister Hedi Nouira, initiates a start-to policy. DSP congress in September 1981, Bourguiba make concessions, "I see no objection to the establishment of pluralism."
Essebsi Kingpin, who has rejoined the government as foreign minister in April 1981, quit his new position in September 1986. During these six years he has been facing several crises, including the arrival of the Palestinians - forced out of Beirut - in Tunis in 1982, the bombing of the village of Hammam-Chott, south of Tunis, by Israeli warplanes in 1985, not to mention the constant mood swings Gaddafi ... The high point of his career as head of diplomacy remain, however, the vote of the UN resolution condemning Israeli aggression against Tunisia. "The Americans, who used to veto any resolution against the Jewish state, preferred for the first time in UN history - and the last to date - to abstain" tells Kingpin Essebsi. Bourguiba, who wanted nothing so much, then sent him a telegram of congratulations before planning his return to Tunis, a luncheon in his honor at the palace of Carthage. It is not proud.
For leading the foreign policy of his country for six years, met with heads of state and attended numerous international meetings, Kingpin Essebsi remained attentive to developments in the world. He reads a lot, looks at policy issues and regularly lectures on the new U.S. strategy in the world. In interviews he gave, from time to other media, it does not merely bear witness to the past: he also gives his views on current developments in the Maghreb and the Middle East. The former Tunisian foreign minister could hold forth for hours on this subject, which fascinates him.
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