Ghazi Aridi
Ghazi Aridi is a Politician Lebanese, born in 1954.
Member of the Socialist party Progressist, it is one of the closest advisers of his chief, Walid Joumblatt.
He directs in the Eighties the radio operator of the party, the Voix of the Mountain , which will be closed after the war.
He presents within the list of Rafiq Hariri to the legislative elections of 2000, and is elected appointed Druze of Beirut. In the tread, it is named Minister for Information and government spokesman of Rafiq Hariri in 2000.
He undertakes within the ministry a purging of the supernumerary civils servant and tries to reform TV-Lebanon, without success. He was opposed to the closing of the MTV chain imposed by the prosyrian capacity, without to manage to block this decision. After the cabinet reshuffle of 2003, he becomes Minister for the Culture, substitute Ghassan Salamé at this station. But he resigns in September 2004, in protest with the extension of the mandate of President Emile Lahoud. At the Parliament, he votes against this constitutional amendment.
He is re-elected with his seat of deputy in 2005 and takes again the post of minister of Information in July 2005, within the government of Fouad Siniora.
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