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Mustapha Ben Jafar
Tunisian politician and medical doctor
Mustapha Ben Jafar (Arabic: مصطفى بن جعفر) (born 8 December 1940) is a Tunisian politician and medical doctor who was Speaker of the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia from November 2011 to December 2014.
He founded and has led the Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties (FDTL), a political party, since 1994.
Biography
Ben Jafar was born in 1940 in Tunis. He attended Sadiki College from 1950–1956, then studied medicine in France to become a radiologist.
In 1970 he returned to Tunisia, joined the University of Tunis's medical faculty and worked also at the university hospital.
President Ben Jaafar also intervened at the Congress of European Socialists to bring the Tunisian example, cornerstone of the new Europe for the Mediterranean.
In 1976 he was one of the founders of a weekly opinion magazine and an organization that evolved into the Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH).
In 1978 he joined others to start a political party, the Movement of Socialist Democrats (MDS).
The MDS was the largest opposition party as of 1991 and the ruling party made an apparent attempt to work