Ridha Belhaj (politician)

Ridha Belhaj (born 16 February 1962) is a Tunisian politician of secularist Nidaa Tounes party.

Having served as the General-secretary and delegate-minister in Beji Caid Essebsi's Transitional Government from February 2011 to December 2011, Essebsi – now President of Tunisia – on 1 January 2015 appointed him the head of his presidential cabinet. On 1 February 2016, Belhaj stepped back to be replaced by Caid Essebsi's cousin Selim Azzabi.