Tunisian parties: Power-sharing deal formalised

TUNIS:

Tunisia’s three main parties formalised a power-sharing agreement on Monday, 10 months after the ouster of the north African country’s strongman Zine el Abidine Ben Ali.

Hamadi Jebali of the moderate Ennahda party will serve as prime minister, while the other top jobs of president and chairman of the new constituent assembly are divided between two left-wing parties.  Moncef Marzouki of the leftist Congress for the Republic Party (CPR) will be president, and Ettakatol’s Mustapha Ben Jaafar will chair the body tasked with drafting a new constitution. The 217-member assembly will meet for the first time on Tuesday to confirm the three posts.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 22^nd, 2011.