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President of Tunisia from to

Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Tunisian Arabic: Zīn il-ʿĀbdīn bin ʿAlī, Standard Arabic: زَيْن الْعَابِدِين بْن عَلِيّ, romanized:&#;Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn bin ʿAliyy; 3 September – 19 September ), commonly known as Ben Ali or Ezzine, was a Tunisian politician who served as the second President of Tunisia from to In that year, during the Tunisian revolution, he was overthrown and fled to Saudi Arabia.

Ben Ali was appointed Prime Minister in October He assumed the Presidency on 7 November in a bloodless coup d'état that ousted President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him incompetent.^[2] Ben Ali led an authoritarian regime.^[3] He was reelected in several non-democratic elections where he won with enormous majorities, each time exceeding 90% of the vote, his final re-election coming on 25 October ^[4][3] Ben Ali was the penultimate surviving leader deposed in the Arab Spring; he was survived