Mohamed Abbou (Arabic: محمد عبو), born on 10 May 1966 in Tunis, is a Tunisian lawyer and politician.
His actions as a lawyer at the Court of Cassation of Tunis made Mohamed Abou known by his activism for human rights.
[2] Following his articles that were published on Tunisnews, a website of opposition to the regime of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, he was arrested on 1 March 2005 and on 29 April was sentenced to three years and six months in prison.
[4] After the 2011 revolution and the overthrow of the Ben Ali regime, he was elected on 23 October 2011 as a member of the Constituent Assembly of Tunisia in the Nabeul 1 constituency before being appointed on 24 December as adviser to the Prime Minister, in charge of Administrative Reform in the Hamadi Jebali government.
On 21 April 2019, he took over the head of the party to become a candidate for the 2019 Tunisian presidential election, at the second national congress.