Hédi Nouira

Hédi Nouira (rear RTL الهادينويرة), of its complete name Mohamed Al-Hedi Ben Amira Ben Mohamed Nouira, born the April 5th 1911 with Monastir and deceased the January 25th 1993 with Marsa, is a politician Tunisia N.

Militant youth

Resulting from an easy family, it follows her studies in its birthplace but is not able to be registered with the Collège Sadiki of Tunis. It follows secondary studies to Sousse where it is initially attracted by the Football, between to the sporting Star of the Sahel and makes a short passage in France while passing its baccalaureat with Paris in 1931.

In 1934, it attends the creation of the first cell of Néo-Destour in the presence of Habib Bourguiba (then member of the executive committee). It becomes about it a militant credit while following a liberal line .

It is reinstalled then in France, where it follows studies, which lead it to a license in Droit. It continues in same time its course militant by adhering to Association Moslem student S of the North Africa (AEMNA) then by creating the Defense committee of freedoms in Tunisia from which he becomes the general secretary.

Resistance

While returning to Tunisia in 1938, it continues its political commitment and is made imprison with the civil prison of Tunis, that of Téboursouk, with the Fort Saint Nicolas's Day of Marseilles, with Bourguiba and other militants of Néo-Destour, and at the height Montluc of Lyon. Before returning to Tunisia in February 1943, it is placed under house arrest with Rome.

The period spent with Saint Nicolas's Day more brings it closer Bourguiba. Nouira spends 4 years to contribute to the reorganization and the preparation of the party for the release of the country and falls down in clandestinity before becoming militant moderate and diplomatic starting from 1948. It is starting from 1949 that Nouira consolidates its statute abroad while becoming the privileged interlocutor of the majority of the members of the French Socialist party and of the popular Republican movement. It thus exploits its relations to sensitize these parties with the Tunisian cause more and to present the points of view of Néo-Destour. But while refusing to take share with the government of Slaheddine Baccouche, in April 1952, it is exiled in the assigned Tunisian south then with residence in 1953. This business marks its course. It will write many articles during the 4 following years, mainly in the Mission , a Hebdomadaire of which it becomes the leader-writer appointed.

Statesman

Released, it becomes, in August 1954, commercial Minister in the government of Tahar Ben Ammar before being seen entrusting the new ministry for finances in the Bourguiba cabinet. Bourguiba entrusts the mission to him of creating and of structuring the Central bank of Tunisia which it directs of its foundation in 1958 to 1970. It belongs to the executive committee of Néo-Destour during this period.

In 1970, Bourguiba judges that the government of Bahi Ladgham is static and reconciling compared to the policy of the minister Ahmed Ben Salah. Wanting to give a new dash to accelerate the change of the country and to leave it the socialist Doctrines and panarabe of Ben Salah, very inspired by Gamal Abdel Nasser, Bourguiba appoints Nouira Prime Minister and charges it with reforming the nation's economy.

During 10 years, Nouira remains in station, reinforced by the economic clearing and the social progress, although great crises shake Tunisia: the congress of Néo-Destour with Monastir in 1971, the crisis within the university and the riot S of the January 26th 1978. Crises of being able where the Tunisian General union of work and its leader Habib Achour, which supports Nouira within the party initially, play an important role.

The April 23rd 1980, Nouira definitively leaves the political life, officially for health reason, after the failure of the Union tuniso-Libyan woman and the attacks of a commando on the town of Gafsa. Mohamed Mzali succeeds to him. While deciding without complex for a liberal economic policy opening the way on the initiative deprived and with the market economy, it throws the first steps of the insertion of Tunisia in the mondialized economy. More than one manager, Nouira is a reformer who cherishes the idea of the Liberté. While highly paying homage to this famous national figure, Mezri Haddad wrote in its book Non Delenda Carthago (editions of the Rock): We have say it already: the economic good health of Tunisia is not the immediate result of a miracle, but the product of a long process whose first steps go back to the beginning of the the Sixties and whose decisive impulse was given by the Tunisian Guizot, fire Hédi Nouira.

With its death, it is buried in Monastir.

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