Abderrahmane Tlili: key obituary facts
Is Abderrahmane Tlili dead? Yes. Abderrahmane Tlili died on August 23, 2026, at age 83.
Cause of death: Abderrahmane Tlili's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Abderrahmane Tlili known for?
Abderrahmane Tlili was a Tunisian politician.
Abderrahmane Tlili, a Tunisian politician and founder of the Union Démocratique Unitaire, died on August 23, 2026, aged 83.
Born in Gafsa on March 30, 1943, he served as the party’s secretary-general from 1988 to 2003. The Arabic-language account also notes that he entered public life in 1968 and later drew closer to the authorities in the early 1980s, during a period when they were seeking an alternative leadership for the Tunisian General Labour Union; it also says he maintained a good relationship at the time with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.