TUNIS — A former junior minister faces the challenge of creating a ruling coalition in economically troubled Tunisia after the moderate Islamist Ennahda party, which took most seats in last month's election, tapped him as prime minister on Friday. Habib Jemli vowed to be open to all political parties in picking his government. He will have two months to fashion a coalition out of a fractured parliament in which Ennahda, as the largest party, took only a quarter of the seats. Any new government will need the support of at least two other parties to command even the minimum parliamentary majority of 109 seats needed to pass legislation. "Efficiency and integrity will be the basis for choosing the members of the government, whatever their affiliations without exclusion to any party," Jemli, 60, an agricultural engineer, said on Friday.

Source: International New York Times November 15, 2019 18:22 UTC