L\u2019homme politique et syndicaliste, Ahmed Ben Salah est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 l’\u00e2ge de 94 ans, ce mercredi 16 septembre 2020, apr\u00e8s un long combat avec la maladie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 admis, lundi, \u00e0 l’h\u00f4pital militaire suite \u00e0 un malaise. Plusieurs personnalit\u00e9s politiques et figures syndicalistes lui ont rendu visite pour s\u2019enqu\u00e9rir de son \u00e9tat de sant\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ministre sous la pr\u00e9sidence de Habib Bourguiba, M. Ben Salah a chapeaut\u00e9 le projet du syst\u00e8me des coop\u00e9ratives de production des ann\u00e9es 60. Figure politique, il \u00e9tait \u00e9galement secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la centrale syndicale UGTT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ahmed Ben Salah s\u2019est lanc\u00e9 dans l\u2019action syndicaliste \u00e0 son retour en Tunisie apr\u00e8s des \u00e9tudes sup\u00e9rieures en France. Il adh\u00e8re alors \u00e0 la Centrale syndicale, UGTT, dont il devient secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral en 1952 suite \u00e0 l\u2019assassinat de Farhat Hachad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quelques ann\u00e9es plus tard, il est \u00e9cart\u00e9 de l\u2019Union g\u00e9n\u00e9rale tunisienne du travail et nomm\u00e9 ministre de la Sant\u00e9 et des Affaires sociales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
En 1961, il est missionn\u00e9 par Habib Bourguiba pour \u00e9laborer un plan \u00e9conomique pour une Tunisie devenue socialiste. Charg\u00e9 donc du portefeuille du Plan et des Finances, Ahmed Ben Salah entame son projet des coop\u00e9ratives de production, un m\u00e9canisme qui finit par aggraver la situation de certains agriculteurs et provoquer une contestation sociale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L\u2019\u00e9chec de son projet entra\u00eena d\u2019ailleurs sa chute. En 1969, il est d\u00e9mis de ses fonctions et est condamn\u00e9, l\u2019ann\u00e9e suivante, \u00e0 dix ans de prison et de travaux forc\u00e9s pour abus de la confiance du pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
En 1973, il s\u2019\u00e9vade de sa prison et s’exile en l\u2019Alg\u00e9rie o\u00f9 il obtient le statut de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9 politique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quinze ans apr\u00e8s, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, alors au pouvoir apr\u00e8s l’\u00e9viction de Habib Bourguiba, lui accorde une gr\u00e2ce pr\u00e9sidentielle lui permettant, ainsi, de retourner en Tunisie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ahmed Ben Salah est d\u00e9cor\u00e9 de la m\u00e9daille du pr\u00e9sident de la R\u00e9publique alg\u00e9rienne pour sa contribution durant la guerre de lib\u00e9ration.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
L\u2019homme politique et syndicaliste, Ahmed Ben Salah est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 l’\u00e2ge de 94 ans, ce mercredi 16 septembre 2020, apr\u00e8s un long combat avec la maladie. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 admis, lundi, \u00e0 l’h\u00f4pital militaire suite \u00e0 un malaise. Plusieurs personnalit\u00e9s politiques et figures syndicalistes lui ont rendu visite pour s\u2019enqu\u00e9rir de son \u00e9tat de sant\u00e9. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"single_blog_custom":"","sidebar":"","second_sidebar":"","share_position":"","share_float_style":"","post_date_format":"","post_date_format_custom":"","post_reading_time_wpm":"","zoom_button_out_step":"1","zoom_button_in_step":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"","single_post_gallery_size":""}],"trending_post_position":"","trending_post_label":"","sponsored_post_label":"","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5458,2019],"class_list":["post-20767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-politique","tag-ahmed-ben-salah","tag-deces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20769,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20767\/revisions\/20769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}