Selma Elloumi Rekik ( ar, سلمى اللومي الرقيق; born 5 June 1956) is originally from

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. She is a businesswoman, Tunisian politician and was a member of

Nidaa Tounes Nidaa Tounes ( ar, حركة نداء تونس ', french: Appel de la Tunisie; usually translated as "Call of Tunisia", "Call for Tunisia", or "Tunisia's Call") is a big tent secularist political party in Tunisia. After being founded in 2012, ...

, though she currently is part of

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Biography

Elloumi was a member of the executive committee of

. She was also a candidate for the legislative elections in 2014 representing her party and elected a deputy in the Assembly of the representatives of the people in the first district of Nabeul. On 2 February 2015, she was nominated for the position of Minister of Vocational Training and Employment, then she was hired for the position of Minister of Tourism and Handicrafts,Leaders Magazine (français) "Qui est Selma Elloumi Rekik, confirmée ministre du Tourisme?" http://www.leaders.com.tn/article/16197-qui-est-selma-elloumi-rekik-confirmee-ministre-du-tourisme in succession to

Amel Karboul Amel Karboul (Tunisian Arabic: آمال كربول), born 25 April 1973, is a Tunisian author, speaker, politician, philanthropist, and business leader. Karboul was the first woman in history to occupy Tunisia's Minister of Tourism position as the ...

, in

Habib Essid Habib Essid ( ar, حبيب الصيد; born 1 June 1949) is a Tunisian politician who was Head of Government of Tunisia from 6 February 2015 to 27 August 2016. He was the first Head of Government to be appointed following the adoption of the new c ...

government. On August 13, 2017, on the occasion of the Women's Day, she was decorated with the insignia of the Commander of the Order of the Tunisian Republic. On November 1, 2018, she was appointed director of the presidential cabinet to replace

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. She resigned on May 14, 2019 in the context of the internal tensions in

, of which she assumed the presidency on May 28. However, she resigned from office on June 23, and left the party. In late June, after the justice system recognized Hafedh Caid Essebsi as the party's legal representative, Elloumi took over the chairmanship of Amal Tounes, the new name of the Democratic Reform movement founded in 2011, a decision however canceled on July 20. Elloumi then took the head of another party,

, formerly known as the Tunisian National Party. She was a candidate in the 2019 Tunisian presidential elections of September 15, but she is finally eliminated in the first round. On September 24, 2019, she called for the release of Nabil Karoui.

References

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