Ridha Charfeddine (born 2 July 1952) is a Tunisian politician and sportsmanager. He is an MP since October 2014.

Career

Charfeddine was born in

Sousse Sousse, Sūsah , or Soussa (, ), is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which ...

on 2 July 1952. He has been chairman of

Étoile Sportive du Sahel Étoile Sportive du Sahel (), known as ES Sahel or simply ESS for short, is a Tunisian football club based in Sousse in the Sahel, Tunisia, Sahel region of Tunisia. Their home stadium, Sousse Olympic Stadium, has a capacity of 50,000 spectators ...

since 4 May 2012. In the October 2014 parliamentary elections he was elected to the

Assembly of the Representatives of the People The Assembly of the Representatives of the People ( ', ; ARP) is the lower house of the Parliament of Tunisia. The Assembly replaced the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia, Constituent Assembly and was first Tunisian parliamentary election, 2014, e ...

for

Nidaa Tounes Nidaa Tounes ( ', ; 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, the party won a plurality of seats in the October 2014 p ...

. On 8 October 2015 Charfeddine survived an assassination attempt near Sousse when the car he was travelling in was shot at various times.

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1952 births Living people Members of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People Nidaa Tounes politicians People from Sousse Tunisian sportspeople {{Tunisia-politician-stub