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Tunisia’s “National Coalition” party announced on Sunday the selection of party leader Naji Jalloul as a candidate for the upcoming presidential elections.
Campaign manager Jalloul al-Hamrouni said Naji Jalloul was chosen from among four candidates by a majority of votes.
Naji Jalloul said during a press conference in the city of Monastir, which hosted the second congress of the National Coalition Party, that the conference has achieved successes as it included a number of activists who came from various wilayas of the republic.
He added that on Sunday, the economic and social program of the presidential campaign was presented under the title “For a new development model”.
Naji Jalloul was born in Monastir in 1957. He received his doctorate in Islamic civilization in archaeology from the Sorbonne University in 1988, and his university qualification in 2001, in addition to a certificate of advanced studies from the Sorbonne and a diploma of the Louvre Institute in Paris in 1982 and a bachelor’s degree in history in 1981.
He is a founding member of the National Committee for Military History and the Tunisian Journal of Military History. He was appointed director of the Tunisian Institute for Strategic and Political Studies in September 2017.
He was a member of the political bureau of the Republican Party, from which he resigned in September 2013, and is a former leader of Nidaa Tounes (he joined the party in February 2014 and resigned in June 2019).
He ran in the premature presidential elections in 2019 and was appointed Minister of Education in the governments of Habib Essid and Youssef Chahed from February 2015 to April 2017.
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