Chafic Nassif

Chafic Nassif (Arabic: شفيق ناصيف) was a Syriac Catholic Lebanese politician and lawyer.^[1]

Nassif was one of the founders of the Kataeb Party in 1936.^[1] He won the Beirut Minorities seat in the 1937 parliamentary election.^[2] He later left the Kataeb Party and became a follower of Camille Chamoun.^[1]

Nassif contested the Beirut V - Minet El Hosn seat (allocated to Minorities) in the 1953 general election. He finished in third place with 1,097 votes (21.6%).^[3]

He re-entered parliament after the 1957 elections, winning the Minorities seat in the second district of Beirut with 14,471 votes.^[4] In 1958 he took part in founding the National Liberal Party and was a member of its Administrative Council.^[5]