Samia Hamouda Abbou ( ar, سامية حمودة عبو, born 3 November 1965) is a

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n lawyer and politician. On 27 December 2011, she replaced

Moncef Marzouki Mohamed Moncef Marzouki ( ar, محمد المنصف المرزوقي; ''Muhammad al-Munṣif al-Marzūqī'', born 7 July 1945) is a Tunisian politician who served as the fifth president of Tunisia from 2011 to 2014. Through his career he has been ...

in the

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after he assumed office as the interim

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. Before the

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she was one of the founding members of and joined the

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(CPR) in 2006.Profil de Samia Abbou (Marsad)
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, who until June 2012 served as Deputy Prime Minister for Administrative Reform in the

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. On 17 February 2013, they both left the CPR and founded the

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in May. In the 2014 parliamentary election she was head of her party's list in the Tunis I constituency and succeeded in being reelected to the

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Biography

She completed her primary and secondary studies in Tebourba, then joined the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Tunis until she graduated in 2010. She is one of the founding members of the National Council for Freedoms in Tunisia and joined the Congress for the Republic in 2006. Member of the Constituent Assembly, replacing Moncef Marzouki, from 27 December 2011. She left the Congress for the Republic in 2013 and joined the Democratic Courts, under whose colors she was elected to the Assembly of People's Representatives in the elections of 26 October 2014 with 5,404 votes. In 2014, she was decorated with the insignia of knight of the Tunisian Order of Merit.

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