[4] From 1987 to 1990, Bouchlaka was a member of the executive office of the Union Générale des Etudiants de Tunisie (UGET).

[3] He is a member of the Ennahda Movement, and the party leader Rached Ghannouchi's son-in-law.

[2][5] On 20 December 2011, after former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was deposed, he joined the Jebali Cabinet as minister of foreign affairs from 2011 to 2013 serving the first democratic government of Tunisia.

[7] He is the founder and Director of the Centre for Strategic and Diplomatic Studies (CSDS) established in 2014.

[8][9] In April 2016, the case against Rafik Abdessalem concerning the Sheraton affair and the Chinese donation scandal, involving a transfer of one million dollars deposited into his personal account at the Société Tunisienne de Banque, was transferred to Investigation Office No.