In 1999, at the age of 27, he started his career as an engineer for the French oil corporation
Total S.A. He is successively assisted by two secretaries of state: Slim Besbes and Chedly Abed. In the
2014 Tunisian parliamentary election, his party
Ettakatol lost all of its previous seats. His party did even worse in the
2019 Tunisian parliamentary election by only getting 0.26 percent of the votes, and currently has no seat in the
Assembly of the Representatives of the People. He had participated in
2019 Tunisian presidential election and got 0.34% of votes in the first round. On 20 January 2020, he was appointed head of government by President
Kais Saied after consultations with all political parties, 10 days after the previous prime minister-designate,
Habib Jemli, failed to gain the confidence of parliament. The
Fakhfakh government gained the confidence of parliament on 27 February 2020. The
Fakhfakh government consisted of 32 members of which six members were from
Ennahda (Islamist, 54 out of 217 seats in Parliament), three from
Democratic Current (social democrat, 22 MPs), two from
People's Movement (15 MPs), two from
Tahya Tounes (Liberal, 14 MPs), one member from
Tunisian Alternative (Liberal, three MPs), one from
Nidaa Tounes (Liberal, three MPs) and 17
Independent Politicians. In June 2020, according to
Al Jazeera, "an independent member of Parliament published documents indicating that Fakhfakh owned shares in companies that won deals worth 44 million dinars". Fakhfakh denied any wrongdoing. On 15 July 2020, he resigned. == Personal life ==