TUNIS: Tunisia’s Prime Minister-designate Ali Larayedh on Friday unveiled a new coalition government led by the Islamist Ennahda party and supported by the center-left Ettakatol and the secular Congress for the Republic led by President Moncef Marzouki.
He would remain in office until an election is held before the end of the year, Larayedh announced on national television on Friday.
Larayedh replaced former PM Hamadi Jebali, who resigned following the assassination of secular politician Chokri Belaid on February 6, which provoked the worst unrest in Tunisia since the uprising that overthrew President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali two years ago.
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