Elie Ferzli
إيلي الفرزلي
Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon
In office
2018  31 May 2022
Succeeded byElias Bou Saab
Member of the Lebanese parliament
Information Minister
Personal details
Born (1949-11-22) 22 November 1949
Zahle, Lebanon
OccupationPolitician

Elie Ferzli (Arabic: إيلي الفرزلي; born 22 November 1949 in Zahle, Lebanon) is a Lebanese and Greek 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.

On 23 May 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] In May 2022, he lost his parliamentary seat[4] despite several attempts at manipulating the results.[5]

References

  1. "LCPS - Activities - 1996 - the Role of the 1992 - 1996 Parliament - About". Archived from the original on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
  2. L'orient Le Jour article
  3. "Health minister fuels Lebanese anger over vaccine line-jumping". Reuters. 25 February 2021.
  4. "Lebanon elections: The 5 biggest surprises so far". The New Arab. 16 May 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  5. "Lebanon elections: Early results show power reshuffle". Arab News. 16 May 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2022.


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