Elie Ferzli

Elie Ferzli إيلي الفرزلي
Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon
In office 2018 – 31 May 2022
Succeeded by	Elias Bou Saab
Member of the Lebanese parliament
Information Minister
Personal details
Born	(1949-11-22) 22 November 1949 (age 75) Zahle, Lebanon
Occupation	Politician

Elie Ferzli (Arabic: 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]

References

1. "LCPS - Activities - 1996 - the Role of the 1992 - 1996 Parliament - About". Archived from the original on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
2. L'orient Le Jour article
3. "Health minister fuels Lebanese anger over vaccine line-jumping". Reuters. 25 February 2021.
4. "Lebanon elections: The 5 biggest surprises so far". The New Arab. 16 May 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
5. "Lebanon elections: Early results show power reshuffle". Arab News. 16 May 2022. Retrieved 16 May 2022.

External links

• Media related to Elie Ferzli at Wikimedia Commons