{{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.}}<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“He is the official candidate of Ennahdha for prime minister,” Mouadh Ghannouchi, son of party chief Rached Ghannouchi, said on Friday.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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