Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, the country's first democratically elected leader, has died at 92, his office says.
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, the North African country’s first democratically elected leader, has died. He was 92.
An official in the president’s office told The Associated Press that Essebsi died Thursday morning at the Tunis military hospital, where he was taken the night before.Under Tunisia’s constitution, the president of the parliament will assume the presidency for 45 to 90 days while elections are organized.He recently announced he wouldn’t run in the election scheduled for November, saying a younger person should lead the country.
Radio station Mosaique and state broadcaster Wataniya have reported Beji Caid Essebsi was hospitalized Wednesday night for unspecified health trouble.He is Tunisia’s first democratically elected president, having won office in 2014 in the wake of the country’s Arab Spring uprising. He recently announced he wouldn’t run in the election scheduled for November, saying a younger person should lead the country.
Essebsi was hospitalized twice in June. His office released a video of the president meeting with the defense minister Monday, and Essebsi was visibly weakened, raising concerns about his fitness for office.
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