Career
After graduating from the Tunisian École nationale d"administration in 1976, he worked for the Transportation Ministry. In February 1992 he asked for asylum in Belgium, the Ben Ali regime soon asked for his extradition for alleged terrorist acts but it was finally rejected by the Belgian courts and Bennani was given the status of political refugee. He was elected deputy for Kasserine in the Tunisian Constituent Assembly on 23 October 2011.