[6] Between May and November 2015 Shhaideh was minister of regional development and public administration in the Social Democratic government headed by Victor Ponta, succeeding Liviu Dragnea.

[7] On 21 December 2016 she was indicated by the PSD and ALDE parties as candidate for prime minister to the President of Romania Klaus Iohannis.

On 27 December, Iohannis, who comes from the National Liberal Party defeated by the governing coalition, rejected the nomination, prompting Dragnea and Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, the leader of junior coalition partner Alliance of Liberals and Democrats to accuse Iohannis of playing partisan politics and to consider his removal from the presidency.

[9] Shhaideh family are of the Sunni Muslim faith and belonged to the long established Turkish and Tatar ethnic minorities of Romania.

[10][11] She is married to the Syrian businessman Akram Shhaideh (Arabic: أكرم شحيدة); the Romanian politician Liviu Dragnea was a witness at their wedding ceremony in 2011.