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9-665: Ben Jafar was born in 1940 in Tunis. He attended Sadiki College from 1950–1956, then studied medicine in France to become a radiologist. In 1970 he returned to Tunisia, joined the University of Tunis 's medical faculty and worked also at the university hospital. In 1976 he was one of the founders of a weekly opinion magazine and an organization that evolved into the Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH). In 1978 he joined others to start

18-516: A bicultural, bilingual education. Many of the Tunisian elites, including Bourguiba, graduated from this school. These elites filled the positions of top responsibility of the Destour party. Charles A. Micaud of The Western Political Quarterly said "[i]ts realistic strategy of struggle against colonialism became convincing even to Zitūna students, many of whom came to form the medium and lower cadres of

27-572: A plurality of seats. The leading parties agreed instead on a power-sharing arrangement according to which Ben Jafar would be named Speaker of the Constituent Assembly. He was elected to that post by the Assembly when it met on 22 November 2011, receiving 145 votes against 68 for opposition candidate Maya Jribi . Sadiki College Sadiki College , also known as Collège Sadiki ( Tunisian Arabic : المدرسة الصادقية , "El-Sadqiya High School"),

36-497: A political party, the Movement of Socialist Democrats (MDS). The MDS was the largest opposition party as of 1991 and the ruling party made an apparent attempt to work with the MDS as a "participatory opposition." Ben Jafar was the secretary-general of the MDS in 1992, and ran for the top MDS office, but lost to Mohamed Moadda, and resigned from the party because it seemed to have cooperated with

45-469: Is a lycée (high school) in Tunis , Tunisia . It was established in 1875. Associations formed by its alumni played a major role in the early constitutionalist movement in the country. Noted alumni include former president Habib Bourguiba , politicians Mohamed Mzali , Mustapha Ben Jafar and Azzedine Guellouz . Another alumnus was the creative writer Mahmoud Messadi . Sadiki historically has provided

54-606: The RCD party in government. Ben Jafar was succeeded as health minister by Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane . In the October 2011 elections to the Constituent Assembly Ben Jafar's party placed fourth and he was elected to a seat in the Constituent Assembly. Supported by his own party, Ben Jafar was considered a possible candidate for President in the wake of the election, receiving open consideration from Ennahda , which had received

63-459: The established authoritarian incumbent president Ben Ali . Turbulent protests in January 2011 drove President Ben Ali from the country, and Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi included Ben Jafar as Minister of Health in an interim government beginning 17 January 2011. Along with other minority party members, Ben Jafar resigned within days as public protests continued against the continued dominance of

72-644: The party." The graduates of Sadiki placed a bilingual education system in Tunisia after its independence. Khayr al-Diyn Pacha al-Tunisi , a reformer, had founded the school in 1875. On 25 June 1958 President Bourguiba delivered a speech at the school, declaring that in secondary schools, all subjects will eventually be taught in Arabic instead of French throughout Tunisia. 36°47′54″N 10°09′59″E  /  36.79833°N 10.16639°E  / 36.79833; 10.16639 This Tunisia school-related article

81-537: The ruling party so much (receiving a government subsidy and accommodations) and achieved so little. In 1994 Ben Jafar founded the Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties party (abbreviated FDTL and also called Ettakatol). It was not legally recognized until 2002. He attempted to run for the presidency in 2009 as the FDTL candidate but was disqualified and was in any case widely understood to have no chance to win against

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