Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Interior Minister on 28 April 1986 then Prime Minister by President Habib Bourguiba in October 1987. On 7 November 1987, doctors attending to Bourguiba filed an official medical report declaring him medically incapacitated and unable to fulfill the duties of the presidency. Ben Ali, as the next in line to the presidency, removed Bourguiba from office and assumed the presidency himself. The day of his accession to power was celebrated annually in Tunisia as New Era Day. Two of the names given to Ben Ali's rise to the presidency include "the medical coup d'état" and the "Tunisian revolution". Ben Ali
Slim Chiboub Slim Chiboub Slim Chiboub is a Tunisian businessman. He is married to Dorsaf Ben Ali, the oldest daughter of former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his first wife, Naïma Kefi. He claims he has not seen Ben Ali since the latter married Leïla Ben Ali. He was club president Espérance Sportive de Tunis for nineteen years. He is a former member of the Executive Committee of FIFA. He used to chair the Tunisian Olympic Committee until he has been fallen, after the 2011 revolution. He also owns race horses. Following the 2010–2011 Tunisian protests, he is in