[1] Abir Moussi was born on 15 March 1975, in Jemmal to a father working in the national security service (from Beja) and a mother who was a teacher (from Bab Souika).

[3] She is also vice-president of the municipality of Ariana, president of the litigation committee and member of the national forum of lawyers of the Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD) and secretary general of the Tunisian Association of Victims of Terrorism.

[3] Following the fall of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's regime and the dissolution of the RCD in 2011, which she opposed as a lawyer,[5] Moussi joined the Destourian Movement, founded by former Prime Minister Hamed Karoui.

[2] Regularly referred to as an extreme right-wing party,[7] the latter brings together sympathisers of the former Democratic Constitutional Rally which dominated the country before the revolution.

[15] Although she is in favor of equality between men and women in matters of inheritance, Moussi is opposed to the current government's plan to implement it, arguing that by extending rights to children born out of wedlock, it represents an attack on the institution of the family.

[11] In June 2020, Moussi sharply criticized speaker of the parliament Rached Ghannouchi and his political party the Ennahda Movement for his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and for spreading Islamist ideology in Tunisia.