Rachid Sfar

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Rachid Sfar رشيد صفر
4th Prime Minister of Tunisia
In office 8 July 1986 – 2 October 1987
President	Habib Bourguiba
Preceded by	Mohammed Mzali
Succeeded by	Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Minister of Finance
In office 28 April 1986 – 8 July 1986
President	Habib Bourguiba
Prime Minister	Mohamed Mzali
Preceded by	Salah Ben M'barka
Succeeded by	Ismail Khelil
Minister of Defence
In office 12 September 1979 – 24 April 1980
President	Habib Bourguiba
Prime Minister	Hédi Nouira
Preceded by	Abdallah Farhat
Succeeded by
Personal details
Born	(1933-09-11) September 11, 1933 (age 87) Mahdia, French Tunisia
Political party	Socialist Destourian Party (1964–1988) Democratic Constitutional Rally (1988–2011)
Relatives	Tahar Sfar (father)

Rachid Sfar (Arabic: رشيد صفر‎, Turkish: Reşit Sefer), the former Prime Minister of Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba,^[1] was born on September 11, 1933 in Mahdia, the ancient Fatimite capital of Tunisia. He is the son of the Destourian leader Tahar Sfar, an associate of Bourguiba and co-founder of the Neo-Destourian Tunisian Nationalist Party in 1934. Sfar's ancestors were among the first people of Turkish origin to arrive in Tunisia during the Ottoman rule, they had arrived from Anatolia and Macedonia.^[2]

Biography[]

After completing his secondary studies at the lycée in the city of Sfax, Rachid Sfar pursued advanced studies in humanities, law, and economic in Tunis and in Paris. In Paris, he studied at the Ecole Nationale des Impôts from 1958 to 1959.

In the newly independent Tunisia, Rachid Sfar assumed various administrative responsibilities, notably in the Ministry of Finances: Director general of Taxation, Director General of Economic and Financial Relations, Director General for the Control of Tobacconists, and Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance. In December 1977, Bourguiba called upon him to direct the Ministry of Industry of Mines and the Ministry of Energy. In 1980, he was director of the Ministry of Defense, in 1982 the Ministry of Public Health, and from 1984 to 1986 the Ministry for the Economy.

In July 1986, before the deterioration of the financial situation in the country, President Bourguiba discharged his Prime Minister Mohamed Mzali and tasked Rachid Sfar with implementing a structural adjustment plan as Prime Minister. Rachid Sfar re-established Tunisia's macro-economic equilibria by passing in the National Assembly the "Loi de finances complémentaire" (the supplemental finances law), by devaluing the dinar by 10%, and by obtaining support from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to rebuild currency reserves and re-establish credit.

President Habib Bourguiba fired Rachid Sfar on 3 October 1987.^[1] Bourguiba named his Interior Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali as Sfar's replacement.^[1] On November 7, 1987, invoking a provision of the Tunisian Constitution, the aged and infirm President Habib Bourguiba was declared incapable of executing the duties of his office. He was succeeded by his Prime Minister, who took the oath of office the same day before an extraordinary meeting of the National Assembly.

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External links[]

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