Elie Ferzli إيلي الفرزلي | |
Office1: | Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon |
Term Start1: | 2018 |
Term End1: | 31 May 2022 |
Office2: | Member of the Lebanese parliament |
Office3: | Information Minister |
Birth Date: | 22 November 1949 |
Birth Place: | Zahle, Lebanon |
Nationality: | Lebanese |
Occupation: | Politician |
Successor1: | Elias Bou Saab |
Elie Ferzli (ar|إيلي الفرزلي; born 22 November 1949 in Zahle, Lebanon) is a Lebanese politician. He served as Information Minister and Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon in the early 2000s.[1] He was succeeded by as deputy speaker Farid Makari in 2005. He expressed pro-Syrian sentiments during the Cedar Revolution.
Born to a Greek Orthodox Christian family, on 23 May 2018, he was reelected to parliament, and took again the seat of Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon.[2] In 2021, he skipped the line for vaccinations against COVID-19, taking the vaccine despite not being in neither the correct age group nor the correct risk group.[3] In May 2022, he lost his parliamentary seat[4] despite several attempts at manipulating the results.[5]