Mohamed Ennaceur

President of Tunisia

21 March 1934 El Djem, Tunisia

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25 July 2019 – 23 October 2019

Tunisian politician and acting President in 2019 Mohamed Ennaceur (Arabic: محمد الناصر ‎; born 21 March 1934) is a Tunisian politician who served as the acting 6th President of Tunisia for 91 days, from President Beji Caid Essebsi's death on 25 July 2019 until he handed over the presidency to Kais Saied as the winner of the 2019 Tunisian presidential election on 23 October 2019. Since 2014, he has also been the President of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People and leader of the governing Nidaa Tounes party. Previously, he served as Minister of Social Affairs in the 1970s and 1980s under President Habib Bourguiba and again in 2011 in the transitional Ghannouchi and Essebsi governments. Ennaceur was the founding director of the Tunisian Association of Social Law (Revue tunisienne de droit social) and the Festival international de musique symphonique d'El Jem. On 4 December 2014, he was elected as President of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People, with 176 agreeing votes out of 214 present MPs. Upon President Beji Caid Essebsi's death, Ennaceur ascended as acting president according to the Constitutional provision for the presidential succession of Tunisia.