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Mohsen Marzouk
محسن مرزوق
Personal details
BornJuly 1965
Sfax, Tunisia
Political partyNidaa Tounes

Mohsen Marzouk (Template:Lang-ar; born in July 1965 in Sfax) is a Tunisian human rights expert and activist.

Marzouk holds a degree in Political sociology and International Relations from the International Studies Association in Tunis. As a student he was an activist of both the General Union of Tunisian Students and the outlawed oppositional movement El Amal Ettounsi.

From 1989 on, he worked as a coordinator for the newly founded Arab Institute for Human Rights.[1] Since 2008 he has been secretary-general of the non-governmental Arab Democracy Foundation and member of the International Steering Committee of the Community of Democracies.[2]

Marzouk is one of the founders of Nidaa Tounes and member of the party's Executive Committee.[1] As Beji Caid Essebsi's campaign manager in the Tunisian presidential election, 2014[3] he announced Essebsi's victory in the runoff vote on 21 December,[4] stating that the Tunisians were now turning the page of the transitorial phase[5] and that Tunisia was now a stable democracy.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b وجه من المشهد السياسي: محسن مرزوق… [The face of the political scene: Mohsen Marzouk] (in Arabic). 2014-08-09. Retrieved 2014-12-22.
  2. ^ "Mohsen Marzouk, Tunisia". Council for a Community of Democracies. Retrieved 2014-12-22.
  3. ^ "Tunisians vote for first freely elected president of post-Ben Ali era". Reuters. 2014-11-23. Retrieved 2014-12-23.
  4. ^ "Tunis : « Bajbouj Président », a annoncé Mohsen Marzouk aux partisans de BCE". African Manager (in French). 2014-12-21. Retrieved 2014-12-23.
  5. ^ "Présidentielle : Mohsen Marzouk annonce la victoire de Caïd Essebsi". Kapitalis (in French). 2014-12-21. Retrieved 2014-12-23.
  6. ^ "Tunisie : La campagne de BCE proclame la victoire, Manser conteste". gnet.tn (in French). 2014-12-21. Retrieved 2014-12-23.

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