Ruler · 1936 – 2019

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

Lived 1936 – 2019; politician, diplomat. President of Tunisia (Tunisia), 1987 – 2011.

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Lived: 1936 – 2019; 83 years
In office: 24 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Tunisia
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

President of Tunisia

Tunisia · the 3rd of 9 dated reigns · 1956 – 2019

Lamine Bey1956 – 1957

Habib Bourguiba1957 – 1987

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali1987 – 2011

Fouad Mebazaa2011

Mohamed Ghannouchi2011

Moncef Marzouki2011 – 2014

3 after

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 1987 – 2011 · 24 years · came to it aged 51

Came to it: appointed
Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

Ben Ali was appointed Prime Minister in October 1987.

In that year, during the Tunisian revolution, he was overthrown and fled to Saudi Arabia.

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