Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali
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| Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali | |
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2nd President of the Tunisian Republic
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| Assumed office November 7, 1987 |
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| Prime Minister | Mohammad Ghannouchi |
| Preceded by | Habib Bourguiba |
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| Born | September 9, 1936 (age 71) Hammam-Sousse, Tunisia  |
| Political party | Democratic Constitutional Rally |
| Spouse | Leila Ben Ali |
Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali (born September 9, 1936) is the second president of Tunisia, after Habib Bourguiba.
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[change] History
[change] Birth
Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali was born in Hammam-Sousse on September 9, 1936
[change] Work before Presidency
He was assigned to manage (direct and take care) the Defense Military Security in 1964, and worked there until 1974. He was then promoted (his grade was changed to a superior one) to director-general of National Security at the Ministry of Interior in 1977. After that, he was assigned to take care of relations between Tunisia and the Kingdom of Morocco. After being the ambassador of Tunisia in Poland, he returned to National Security.
Right before becoming the President of Tunisian Republic, Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali has been promoted to Prime Minister and the constitutional successor on October 1, 1987. Five weeks after his promotion he, officially, became the Second President of Tunisia.
[change] Controversy
The way that Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali governs had cause some problems with groups including the Al-Jazeera channel. Al-Jazeera does not believe it is correct for Ben Ali to say that Muslim women wearing headscarves (religious clothes) in public places must take then off and say that they will not wear them in public again.
