Tunisia: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of Tunisia (r. 1987-2011), in front of a portrait of former President Habib Bourguiba, November 2008, Presidencia de la Nacion Argentina (CC License). Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (3 September 1936 - 19 September 2019) was the second President of the Tunisian Republic. He held the office from 7 November 1987, until he was forced to step down and flee the country on 14 January 2011. Ben Ali was appointed Prime Minister in October 1987, and assumed the Presidency in November 1987 in a bloodless coup d'état from then President Habib Bourguiba.

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