Abir Moussi

Holder of a Master's degree in law and a DEA in economic and business law, she became a lawyer at the Bar of the Court of Cassation, the highest court in Tuinisia.[2] She is also vice-president of the municipality of Ariana, president of the litigation committee and member of the national forum of lawyers of the Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD) and secretary general of the Tunisian Association of Victims of Terrorism.[2]

On January 12, 2010, she was appointed Assistant Secretary General in charge of Women at RCD.[2] Following the fall of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's regime and the dissolution of the RCD in 2011, which she opposed as a lawyer,[4] Moussi joined the Destourian Movement, founded by former Prime Minister Hamed Karoui.[5] On 13 August 2016, Moussi was appointed President of the Destourian Movement, renamed the Free Destourian Party.[1] Regularly referred to as an extreme right-wing party,[6] the latter brings together sympathisers of the former Democratic Constitutional Rally which dominated the country before the revolution.[7][8]

Moussi thus takes the lead of those nostalgic for the authoritarian dictatorship of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, under which, according to her, "there was neither unemployment nor poverty", the revolution that brought it down being "a plot by Europeans and Zionists".[9] She therefore does not recognize the 2014 Constitution[9] and advocates for the establishment of a presidential system.[10]

Moussi has declared herself opposed to the decriminalization of homosexuality.[11] On 16 August 2018, the NGO Association of Help, Homosexual Defense for the Equality of Sexual Orientations (ADHEOS) called for Moussi to be banned from the Schengen area following homophobic and hate speech, in which she called for the systematic imprisonment of homosexuals, whom she associated with criminals.[12][13] The NGO also called on the authorities to take measures to protect the rights of homosexuals in the Schengen area. In September 2019, Moussi also supported the practice of "anal testing" of homosexuals by law enforcement officials, if it takes place "following a judicial decision".[14]

Although she is in favor of equality between men and women in matters of inheritance, Moussi is opposed to the current government's plan to implement it, arguing that by extending rights to children born out of wedlock, it represents an attack on the institution of the family.[15][16][17] She is also opposed to the proposal of the current government to implement it. The proposal of the Individual Freedoms and Equality Committee (COLIBE) to introduce this equality while leaving the legatees the choice of using the old system based on the Qur'an also attracts criticism from the candidate, who sees it as "the door open to customary marriages and discrimination between women themselves".[10]

She was elected deputy for the second constituency of Tunis in the legislative elections of 2019.[18]