{"id":20670,"date":"2011-12-23T23:50:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T23:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/tunisian-assembly-backs-cabinet\/"},"modified":"2011-12-23T23:50:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T23:50:48","slug":"tunisian-assembly-backs-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/23\/tunisian-assembly-backs-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisian assembly backs cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span>23 December 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>23:50 GMT<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/56302000\/jpg\/_56302935_013228936-1.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" alt=\"Ennahda Secretary-general Hamadi Jebali (R) with party leader Rachid Ghannouchi (L) - 19 October 2011\" \/><span>Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali&#8217;s Ennahda party won polls in October<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Tunisia&#8217;s constituent assembly has given clear approval to a cabinet proposed by the new Prime Minister, Hamadi Jebali.<\/p>\n<p>The assembly was elected in October, with the moderate Islamist Ennahda party winning a majority of seats.<\/p>\n<p>The caretaker government must now write a new constitution to pave the way for further elections.<\/p>\n<p>A popular uprising in Tunisia led to the fall of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in January.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 154 members of the 217-seat constituent assembly approved the new government, with 38 members voting against and the rest abstaining.<\/p>\n<p>Key ministerial posts in the 41-member cabinet have gone to Ennahda, which won 89 seats in October&#8217;s election making it by far the largest party.<\/p>\n<p>Among top positions, Ali Larayedh, a former political prisoner and senior Ennahda official, was named interior minister and Rafik Ben Abdessalem, son-in-law of Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi, has been nominated as foreign minister.<\/p>\n<p>Nourredine Bhiri, currently party spokesman, is to fill the post of justice minister, while Abdelkarim Zbidi, an independent, will remain in his post at the defence ministry.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 23 December 2011 Last updated at 23:50 GMT Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali&#8217;s Ennahda party won polls in October Tunisia&#8217;s constituent assembly has given clear approval to a cabinet proposed by the new Prime Minister, Hamadi Jebali. The assembly was elected in October, with the moderate Islamist Ennahda party winning a majority of seats. The caretaker government must now write a new constitution to pave the way for further elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tunisian assembly backs cabinet - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/23\/tunisian-assembly-backs-cabinet\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tunisian assembly backs cabinet - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"23 December 2011 Last updated at 23:50 GMT Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali&#039;s Ennahda party won polls in October Tunisia&#039;s constituent assembly has given clear approval to a cabinet proposed by the new Prime Minister, Hamadi Jebali. 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