Elie Ferzli

Elie Ferzli is a Lebanese politician. He served as Information Minister and Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon in the early 2000s. 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 that has its roots in Syria. He owns a substantial stake in IBL Bank SAL.
On 23 May 2018, he was reelected to parliament, and took again the seat of Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon. 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. In May 2022, he lost his parliamentary seat despite several attempts at manipulating the results.