Tunisia’s main Islamist Ennahdha party has named Ali Larayedh as its candidate for prime minister after Hamdi Jebali declined to head the next government.
Larayedh, the country’s interior minister, was a founding member of Ennahdha, and served as the party’s secretary-general in the 1980s, up until his arrest in 1992. He served 14 years in prison.
“He is the official candidate of Ennahdha for prime minister,” Mouadh Ghannouchi, son of party chief Rached Ghannouchi, said on Friday.
The party leader and Larayedh, 57, will now meet with President Moncef Marzouki, who is expected to task the interior minister with forming a new government.
Jebali, who is secretary-general of Ennahdha, resigned on Tuesday after his plan for a non-partisan cabinet of technocrats to prepare for elections collapsed, largely because of opposition from within his own party and its leader, Rached Ghannouchi.
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