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Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali  

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  • Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali has been the president of Tunisia since being elected on November 7, 1987. Ben Ali, the chairperson of the Democratic Constitutional Rally (formerly Neo-Destour party) was elected by a landslide in 1994 and 1999, and in 2004, he was reelected to a fourth 5-year term with nearly 95% of the vote. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Communication; Ben Ali, Zine el-Abidine (1936–)]

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