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Profile: Selma Elloumi RekikF

Posted On 2 September 2019

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Selma Elloumi Rekik (: سلمى اللومي الرقيق; born 5 June 1956) is originally from . She is a businesswoman, politician and was a member of , though she currently is part of .

Biography

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Elloumi at her office at the Ministry of Tourism

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, in succession to , in government.

On August 13, 2017, on the occasion of the Women's Day, she was decorated with the insignia of the Commander of the .

On November 1, 2018, she was appointed director of the presidential cabinet to replace . 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 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 of September 15, but she is finally eliminated in the first round. On September 24, 2019, she called for the release of Nabil Karoui.

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