Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, the North African country’s first democratically elected leader and heir to Tunisia’s founding father, has died. He was 92.
Essebsi died Thursday morning at the Tunis military hospital, where he was taken the night before, an official in the president’s office told the Associated Press.Under Tunisia’s constitution, the president of the parliament will assume the presidency for 45 to 90 days while elections are organized.Essebsi won office in 2014 in the wake of the country’s Arab Spring uprising.
Most of Essebsi’s political career came well before the Arab Spring. He was a symbol of Tunisia’s independence generation, though he outlived most of his peers who helped the country shake off French rule in 1956. After Bourguiba was overthrown in a bloodless coup by Zine Abidine Ben Ali in 1987, Essebsi took up a quiet life as a lawyer and author, until his re-emergence after the Arab Spring.
But the country has gone through nine governments since the 2011 uprising, and each one has failed to resolve widespread poverty, unemployment and disillusionment with democracy. Attacks by Islamic extremists, including some trained in neighboring Libya, have killed dozens and sent foreign tourists fleeing.
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