Hamed Karoui (; 30 December 1927 – 27 March 2020) was

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from 27 September 1989 to 17 November 1999. From 1986 to 1987 he was Minister of Youth and Sports and from 1988 to 1989 he was Minister of Justice. Born in

Sousse Sousse, Sūsah , or Soussa (, ), is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which ...

, he was a member of the Constitutional Democratic Rally party, and the longest-serving president of

Étoile Sportive du Sahel Étoile Sportive du Sahel (), known as ES Sahel or simply ESS for short, is a Tunisian football club based in Sousse in the Sahel, Tunisia, Sahel region of Tunisia. Their home stadium, Sousse Olympic Stadium, has a capacity of 50,000 spectators ...

from 1961 to 1981.

Biography

He continued his primary and secondary studies in Sousse. At the age of 15, he joined Neo-Destour and campaigned in the ranks of the General Union of Tunisian Students (UGET) and the organization of Tunisian Scouts where, at the age of 17, he obtained the rank of district chief. He was also responsible for publishing the underground newspaper Al Kifah for the center of the country. After graduating in June 1946, he began his graduate studies at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris where he obtained a doctorate and a specialty certificate in pneumo-phthisiology. During his studies, he was elected successively president of the Destourienne cell of Paris, president of the federation Destourienne of France and secretary-general of the UGET. He also represented the student movement at two international congresses held in Prague and Colombo. Back in Tunisia in 1957, he was assigned to the regional hospital of Sousse to exercise the function of specialist physician in pneumology and head of department. He also presided over the sports clubs of the Stade Soussien in 1962-1963 and then the Étoile sportive du Sahel from 1963 to 1981. Karoui died on 27 March 2020.

Political career

During the same period, Karoui was head of Sousse-Ville's Destourian bureau from 1957 and 1988 and was elected several times as a member of the Sousse Coordinating Committee. From 1957 to 1972, he was City Councilor before becoming mayor in 1985. In 1964, he was elected as deputy to represent the city of Sousse in the National Assembly and was re-elected in 1981, 1986 and 1989. In 1977, he was elected to be part of the Socialist Destourian Party central committee before being re-elected in 1979. From 1983 to 1986, he served as vice-president before he was appointed head of the Socialist Destourian Party, which later became the Constitutional Democratic Rally by

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Tunisian Arabic: , ; 3 September 1936 – 19 September 2019), commonly known as Ben Ali or Ezzine, was a Tunisian politician who served as the second President of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011. In that year, during the Tun ...

on 17 October 1987. Karoui joined the government by taking the helm of the Ministry of Youth and Sports from 7 April 1986, to 27 October 1987. After Ben Ali became president on 7 November 1987, he was appointed Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister, then Minister of justice on 24 July 1988. On 27 September 1989, he became Prime Minister, before he was replaced by

Mohamed Ghannouchi Mohamed Ghannouchi (; 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 Tunisian government under President Zine El Abidine B ...

on 17 November 1999.

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