Selma Elloumi Rekik

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Selma Elloumi Rekik (2018)

Selma Elloumi Rekik ( Arabic سلمى اللومي الرقيق, DMG Salmā al-Lūmī ar-Raqīq ; born June 5, 1956 in Tunis ) is a Tunisian entrepreneur and politician. She was a board member of the secular collection movement Nidaa Tounes, which she co-founded in 2012, and was a member of the People's Representative Assembly for this party after the 2014 election . From February 2015 to November 2018 she was part of the Tunisian government Minister for Tourism and Handicrafts, then until May 2019 Director of the Tunisian Presidential Cabinet and then briefly chairwoman of Nidaa Tounes, which she left at the end of June.

Family, education and entrepreneurship

Elloumi Rekik graduated from high school (comparable to the Abitur) in Tunis in 1975 and studied at the Institute for Management of the University of Tunis , where she received her bachelor's degree in 1979 . She is married to an ophthalmologist and has three children.

Elloumi Rekik began to get involved in the family business that her father had founded in 1946 with fewer than 20 employees and which primarily produces electrical cables for motor vehicles. The company expanded rapidly; Today, the Elloumi group of companies is one of the largest companies in the country with various branches of business and 8,500 employees. Within the group, Selma Elloumi Rekik set up the Stifen branch as managing director from 1994, which produces agricultural products, especially food, on a large scale on the Cape Bon peninsula. In 2000, she opened a frozen fruit plant near the company's 224 hectares of fields, which produces 2,500 tons of frozen strawberries annually, 30 percent of Tunisian production, 80 percent of which for export, mainly yogurt. Most of the strawberries that Danone processes come from Stifen, which was one of the first Tunisian companies to meet the ISO 22000 standard .

Political career

After the revolution in Tunisia in 2010/2011 , she decided to become politically active, according to her own statements, because she felt it was a civic duty, and in 2012 founded the Nidaa Tounes collection movement with her brother Faouzi Elloumi and other secular politicians such as Beji Caid Essebsi and Taieb Baccouche ("Reputation of Tunisia").

Elloumi Rekiks constituency: Nabeul 1 on the Cape Bon peninsula

Elloumi Rekik won a seat in the first People's Representative Assembly elected under the democratic constitution of 2014 in the constituency of Nabeul 1 on the Cape Bon Peninsula in the north of the country. After the chairman of Nidaa Tounes, Beji Caid Essebsi, became the first president of Tunisia to be elected under the new, democratic constitution on December 31, 2014, Elloumi Rekik offered him to give up her mandate and move to the advisory staff of the president, which he did refused. Instead, the country's prime minister-designate, Habib Essid , earmarked her for the important office of Minister for Education and Labor in his first cabinet list dated January 23, 2015. Because Essid could not find a majority in parliament with this proposal, he included the moderate Islamist second largest parliamentary group Ennahda in the cabinet and gave the post intended for Elloumi Rekik to one of their politicians. Elloumi Rekik became Minister for Tourism and Handicrafts in the Essid Cabinet, which was confirmed by Parliament on February 5, 2015 , replacing Amel Karboul and taking up her work on February 6. On February 20, 2015, her parliamentary mandate was taken over by Lamia Gharbi . After the People's Representatives' Assembly expressed its distrust in the Essid cabinet on August 3, 2016, the new Prime Minister Youssef Chahed Elloumi Rekik took over in the same office in his new cabinet , to which she belonged when she was formed on August 27, 2016.

After tensions arose between Chahed and President Essebsi, in which Elloumi Rekik sided with the President and his son Hafedh, Elloumi Rekik left the Chahed cabinet in November 2018; her successor as tourism minister was René Trabelsi . On November 14, she was appointed director of the Presidential Cabinet, President Essebsi's political advisory staff, succeeding Selim Azzabi . On May 15, 2019, she resigned her position and announced that she would become involved in the Nidaa Tounes party ahead of the parliamentary elections that follow in the autumn. At the last party conference on April 6, 2019, when Elloumi Rekik was elected to the Politburo of Nidaa Tounes, the party split into two wings around the president's son Hafedjh and the parliamentary group leader in the People's Assembly, Soufiane Toubel . Elloumi Rekik, as confidante of the president, joined - according to Jeune Afrique astonishingly - the wing around Toubel and tried to reach an agreement. She was elected on May 29, 2019. Chairman of Hammamet faction founded by Toubel of Nidaa Tounes and agreed on June 11, a joint electoral list with the secular party Machrouû Tounes the former Nidaa Tounes-politician Mohsen Marzouk , but resigned already to 23 June 2019 back and out of the party. She declared that beyond the factions of the party, it must be about content rather than people; the centrist, democratic forces would have to unite before the election. The Tunisian government had previously recognized Hafedh Caid Essebsi as party chairman, thereby revoking the Hammamet faction's legitimacy. Her brother, who was one of the party's sponsors, had already resigned in April 2018 and supports the party of the interim premier Mehdi Jomaâ . On June 28, 2019, she became chairman of the small Amal Tounes party , which had previously been headed by Emna Mansour, who had been a presidential candidate in 2014 . Elloumi Rekik stated that her goal was to reunite the moderate party family and the former supporters of Nidaa Tounes.

Positions and Style

Elloumi Rekik also represents the tourism industry, which is important for Tunisia, internationally, including Germany, from which most of the visitors to Tunisia come to France. For the first five years after taking office, in addition to the return to normalcy and stability in Tunisian tourism, she was concerned with promoting alternative tourism with rail travel to the hinterland, expanding the Les dunes electroniques festival on the former Star Wars revolving site and thalasso - and cultural trips . Her political style is described as discreet and effective.

Awards

In 2015 Elloumi Rekik was awarded the Tunisian Association of Women in Business Management as an “influential Tunisian woman” (prix de la femme d'influence tunisienne).

Web links

Commons : Selma Elloumi Rekik  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Salma Rekik. Leader Party of Nahdtha ( Memento from May 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: Tunisia Live , 2014.
  2. ↑ L'entreprise | Le Groupe. Modernization of the secteur agricole en Tunisie. In: Stifen.com . See also the German subsidiary Coficab: About us. In: Coficab.de .
  3. ^ Groupe Elloumi. In: Bloomberg.com .
  4. ↑ The company | Presentation and history. In: Stifen.com .
  5. ↑ Selma Elloumi Rekik exporte la fraise tunisienne. In: L'Usine Nouvelle No. 3108, July 3, 2008.
  6. ↑ Raouia Kheder: Portrait de Salma Elloumi Rekik, élue députée Nida Tounes ( Memento from May 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: Femmes de Tunisie , 2014.
  7. ↑ Legislative elections' final results in constituency of Nabeul I. ( Memento from May 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Agence Tunis Afrique Press , November 21, 2014. In some press articles it is assigned to the constituency of Nabeul 2, which is not applies.
  8. ↑ Tunisie: Selma Elloumi recadrée par BCE. In: Jeune Afrique , January 22, 2015.
  9. ^ Tunisie: La composition du gouvernement Habib Essid (liste complète). In: Direct Info , January 23, 2015.
  10. ↑ Nawel Bizid: Huit nouveaux députés rejoignent l'Assemblée des Représentants du Peuple. In: Webdo.tn , February 20, 2015.
  11. ^ Salma Elloumi-Rekik ministre-directeur du cabinet du président de la république. In: Kapitalis.com , October 22, 2018.
  12. ↑ Frida Dahmani: Selma Elloumi Rekik, you cabinet présidentiel à la direction de Nidaa Tounes? In: Jeune Afrique , May 16, 2019.
  13. ^ Nidaa Tounes (clan Hammamet) et Machrou 'Tounes iront ensemble aux élections. In: Huffington Post Maghreb , June 11, 2019; Salma Elloumi: je n'ai plus rien à faire avec Nidaa mais je demeure attachée à l'union avec Machrouu. In: Espace Manager , June 23, 2019.
  14. ^ Après avoir quitté Nidaa Tounes, Salma Elloumi fait de beaux rêves. In: Kapitalis.com , July 2, 2019.
  15. ↑ Frida Dahmani: Selma Elloumi Rekik, you cabinet présidentiel à la direction de Nidaa Tounes? In: Jeune Afrique , May 16, 2019.
  16. ^ Salma Elloumi Rekik présidente du parti Amal Tounes. In: Espace Manager , June 28, 2019; IB: Salma Elloumi Rekik élue présidente du parti Amal Tounes. In: Tunis Webdo , June 30, 2019. For Mansour, see Biographie de Emna Mansour Karoui, candidat à la Présidentielle de 2014. In: Business News , September 24, 2014.
  17. ↑ Tunisia wants stability and growth. In: ITB Berlin , March 4, 2015; Madeleine Löning: Sustainable Tourism in Tunisia: Off the beaten path. In: Qantara.de , August 1, 2018.
  18. ↑ Qui est Selma Elloumi Rekik, ministre de la Formation professionnelle et de l'Emploi. In: Leaders.com.tn , January 23, 2015.
  19. ^ Salma Elloumi Rekik: une femme d'influence. In: Femmes de Tunisie , March 12, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Elloumi Rekik, Selma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES سلمى اللومي الرقيق (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 5th June 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis