Nadia Akacha, chief of staff to Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed, announced on Monday her resignation for “fundamental differences of opinion”.
In a post on his Facebook account, Akacha pointed out: “ I decided to quit. Fundamental differences of opinion on Tunisia’s interests have emerged and I believe it is my duty to step down”.
Quoted by the Tunisian press agency “TAP”, a source at the Presidency of the Tunisian Republic confirmed the resignation of Nadia Akacha from her position as director of cabinet to President Saïed.
Akacha, 41, a lawyer by training, was appointed legal adviser to the presidential cabinet at the end of 2019 before becoming in January 2020 the director of President Saïed’s cabinet.
Holder of a doctorate in public law, this specialist in constitutional law was a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law in Heidelberg (Germany).
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