Elie Ferzli إيلي الفرزلي | |
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| Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon | |
| In office 2018 – 31 May 2022 | |
| Succeeded by | Elias Bou Saab |
| Member of the Lebanese parliament | |
| Information Minister | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 22 November 1949 Zahle, Lebanon |
| Occupation | Politician |
Elie Ferzli (Arabic: إيلي الفرزلي; born 22 November 1949 in Zahle, Lebanon) is a Lebanese 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.
Born to a Greek Orthodox Christian family, 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]
- ^ "LCPS - Activities - 1996 - the Role of the 1992 - 1996 Parliament - About". Archived from the original on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
- ^ L'orient Le Jour article
- ^ "Health minister fuels Lebanese anger over vaccine line-jumping". Reuters. 25 February 2021.
- ^ "Lebanon elections: The 5 biggest surprises so far". The New Arab. 16 May 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- ^ "Lebanon elections: Early results show power reshuffle". Arab News. 16 May 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2022.