Elyes Fakhfakh, appointed to form a new government, now has a month to form a coalition that will win the confidence of Parliament.
Elyes Fakhfakh, 48, a former employee of the French group Total, has one month to form a coalition likely to gain the confidence of deputies.
Otherwise, new legislative elections will be unavoidable.
Minister of Finance in 2012, in the period immediately following the "jasmine revolution" and the fall of the Ben Ali regime, Elyes Fakhfakh also headed the Ministry of Tourism.
The general elections last October resulted in a very divided parliament. The first parliamentary force, the moderate Islamist group Ennahda, controls only 53 of the 217 assembly seats.
On January 10, Parliament refused to trust the government proposed by Habib Jemli, who had been appointed Prime Minister by Ennahda in November.
With Reuters
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