Elected Tuesday, Souad Abderrahim, is the manager of a pharmaceutical firm and a militant women’s rights activist. Despite being a member of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party, she does not wear a veil. [...]
She is the only female winner of half a dozen other female Ennahda candidates who ran in the mayoral elections in, and around the Tunis region. [...]
Abderrahim stated in an interview with the Associated Press that her first priority was to clean the city and plant trees. The city of Tunis has been suffering from the degradation of the waste disposable services since the 2011 Arab Spring.
She dedicated her victory to all Tunisian women, and asserted that the Ennahda party would not compromise the advancements made in women’s rights, something which they had safeguarded by promoting female candidates in municipal elections.
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