Abdellatif Mekki | |
Birth Place: | El Ksour, Tunisia |
Party: | Ennahda Movement |
Abdellatif Mekki (born 1962) is a Tunisian politician. He is the Minister of Public Health under Prime Minister Ilyes Fakhfakh.[1] [2]
Abdellatif Mekki was born in 1962 in El Ksour.[2] He holds a degree in biochemistry.[2] While at university, he served as Secretary General of the student union Union Générale des Etudiants de Tunisie (UGET).[2]
He was Head of the Ennahda Movement.[2] As a result, he was jailed from 1991 to 2001.[2] On 20 December 2011, he joined the Jebali Cabinet as Minister of Public Health.[2] He is also a member of the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia.[2]