Charbel Nahas

Charbel Nahas
Leader of Citizens in a State
Assumed office
24 March 2016
Preceded byOffice established
Minister of Labour
In office
13 June 2011 – February 2012
Prime MinisterNajib Mikati
Preceded byBoutros Harb
Succeeded bySalim Jreissati
Minister of Telecommunications
In office
9 November 2009 – 13 June 2011
Prime MinisterSaad Hariri
Preceded byGebran Bassil
Succeeded byNicolas Sehnaoui
Personal details
Born (1954-08-16) 16 August 1954
Beirut, Lebanon
PartyCitizens in a State (since 2016)
Free Patriotic Movement (until 2016)
Alma materEcole Polytechnique
Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
Websitecharbelnahas.org
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Charbel Nahas (Arabic: شربل نحاس; born 16 August 1954) is a Lebanese politician, economist and engineer who is the General Secretary of Citizens in a State, a political party that was established in 2016 and that has as its goal to create "a civil, democratic, fair and capable state". He is widely considered to be a Lebanese progressive whose priority has been to improve living conditions for the country's disenfranchised poor.

Nahas served as labour minister in Najib Mikati's second government as one of eleven Change and Reform ministers, led by Michel Aoun. He resigned on 22 February 2012, arguing that all of his colleagues in government were preventing any effective improvement in workers' rights.