Seifeddine Makhlouf ((

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C ...

: سيف الدين مخلوف), born 12 August 1975) is a Tunisian lawyer and politician. Makhlouf was elected to the

Assembly of the Representatives of the People The Assembly of the People's Representatives ( ar, مجلس نواب الشعب ', french: Assemblée des représentants du peuple; ARP) is Tunisia's legislative branch of government. The unicameral Assembly replaced the Constituent Assembly and ...

in 2019 and he is the spokesperson and parliamentary group leader of

Dignity Coalition The Dignity Coalition ( ar, ائتلاف الكرامة, Itilaf al-Karama) or Al Karama is an Islamist political party in Tunisia that was founded in 2019 in response to Ennahdha The Ennahda Movement ( ar, حركة النهضة, Ḥarakatu ...

. Makhlouf was the Dignity Coalition candidate for the

2019 Tunisian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Tunisia on 15 September 2019, the second direct vote for the presidency since the 2011 revolution. The elections had originally been planned for 17 and 24 November, but were brought forward after the death of ...

in which he gained 147,351 votes in the first round, or 4.37% of the vote. In June 2022, he was sentenced to a year in prison for insulting a judge.

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