Ahmed Najib Chebbi ( ar, أحمد نجيب الشابي, french: Ahmed Néjib Chebbi) or simply Najib Chebbi (born 30 July 1944) is a
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n attorney and politician.
Chebbi is a prominent figure of the Tunisian opposition movement;
in 1983, he founded the
Democratic Progressive Party
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, which gained legal recognition in 1988. He is currently the leader of the Democratic Progressive Party. In 2006,
Maya Jribi
Maya Jribi (January 29, 1960 – May 19, 2018) was a Tunisian politician. From 2006 to 2012, she was the leader of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP). From PDP's merger into the Republican Party in April 2012, until her resignation in 20 ...
became the party's secretary-general, the first woman to hold such office in Tunisia. In 2009 Chebbi attempted to run as a candidate for
President of Tunisia but was barred from running.
In response to former authoritarian President
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's statement during the
2010–2011 Tunisian protests
The Tunisian Revolution, also called the Jasmine Revolution, was an intensive 28-day campaign of civil resistance. It included a series of street demonstrations which took place in Tunisia, and led to the ousting of longtime president Zine El ...
promising 300,000 new jobs would be created and criticizing the protests, Chebbi said that despite official claims of police firing in self-defense that "the demonstrations were non-violent and the youths were claiming their rights to jobs" and that "the funeral processions
or those killed on January 9turned into demonstrations, and the police fired
tthe youths who were at these .. processions." He then criticised Ben Ali's comments as the protesters were "claiming their civil rights, and there is no terrorist act...no religious slogans," while accusing Ben Ali of "looking for scapegoats." He further criticised the additional jobs offered as mere "promises."
Following the ousting of Ben Ali on 14 January 2011, Prime Minister
Mohammed Ghannouchi
Mohamed Ghannouchi ( ar, محمد الغنوشي ''Muhammad Al-Ghannushi''; born 18 August 1941) is a Tunisian politician who was Prime Minister of Tunisia from 1999 to 2011. Regarded as a technocrat, Ghannouchi was a long-standing figure in the ...
contacted Chebbi and other opposition leaders in hopes of creating a coalition government until elections can be held. Chebbi "said he demanded parliamentary elections be held within six or seven months."
On 15 January 2011, Chebbi was noted by
Al Jazeera
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as one of three potential successors (the only one mentioned not to have been part of the Ben Ali government) to become President of Tunisia following the proposed
2011 general election to occur within six months. It noted however that "if he is to be a contender in the next presidential election, he will need to widen his appeal."
Chebbi was named
Minister of Regional Development
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* Minister (Christianity), a Christian cleric
** Minister (Catholic Church)
* Minister (government), a member of government who heads a ministry (government department)
** Minister without portfolio, a member of government w ...
in the new government on 17 January 2011, but he resigned in March 2011 after less than two months in his post.
See also
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Democratic Progressive Party (Tunisia)
*
18 October Coalition for Rights and Freedoms The 18 October Coalition for Rights and Freedoms in Tunisia, ( French: ''Collectif du 18 Octobre'') was formed when a number of political parties, NGOs and human rights activists advocating various political ideologies, among them Islamists, secular ...
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1944 births
Living people
People from Tunis
Progressive Democratic Party (Tunisia) politicians
20th-century Tunisian lawyers
Members of the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia