Elie Ferzli
Elie Ferzli (Arabic: إيلي الفرزلي; born 22 November 1949 in Zahle, Lebanon) is a Lebanese and Eastern Orthodox Christian politician. He served as Information Minister and Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon in the early 2000s.[1] He was succeeded by as deputy speaker Farid Makari in 2005. He expressed pro-Syrian sentiments during the Cedar Revolution. In 2018, he was reelected to parliament, and took again the seat of Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon.[2] In 2021, he skipped the line for vaccinations against COVID-19, taking the vaccine despite not being in neither the correct age group nor the correct risk group.[3]
Elie Ferzli إيلي الفرزلي | |
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Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon | |
Assumed office 2018 | |
Member of the Lebanese parliament | |
Information Minister | |
Personal details | |
Born | Zahle, Lebanon | 22 November 1949
Nationality | Lebanese |
Occupation | Politician |
References
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-19. Retrieved 2011-06-10.
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- "Health minister fuels Lebanese anger over vaccine line-jumping". Reuters. 25 February 2021.
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