| 12 December 2011 | 0 Comments
 
 

Ibrahim Qassas at the Constituent Assembly

Ibrahim Qassas is a Tunisian politician serving in the country’s Constituent Assembly. He is the head of an Al Aridha (Popular Petition) list from the district of Kebili, in southwest Tunisia. He was elected to the Tunisian Constituent Assembly in October 2011. His list got 26 seats in the assembly. Qassas is considered by many Tunisians as “one of the people,” as he used to be a rural transportation driver in the south of Tunisia.

Qassas was born in 1965 in Naggha, a village in Kebili. Qassas went to Kebili High School and dropped out in his third year. Around 1983, he emigrated to Italy and did odd jobs there. He worked in Iraq as a driver and ran a café there until 2000. Upon his return to Tunisia, he applied for a driver’s license in Kebili and later bought a car which he turned into a rented vehicle for rural transport. He applied to Kebili’s Al Aridha list after some citizens in the region supported him to represent them in the Constituent Assembly.

On December 10th, 2011, Qassas launched a big controversy inside the Constituent Assembly when he violently protested against someone, who called him a bassaas (which rhymes with his surname Qassas and literally means “someone who farts”). The incident created an uproar in the assembly with Qassas denouncing the person who insulted him and demanding a public apology.


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