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With Nidaa Tounes having won a plurality it has the right to name a prime minister and form a government in coalition.<ref>http://www.presstv.in/detail/2014/10/30/384137/nidaa-tounes-comes-1st-in-tunisia-polls/</ref> [[Beji Caid Essebsi]] said it was too early to talk of a coalition government – including one with Ennahda. Instead he said the [[Tunisian presidential election, 2014]] will give direction to the formation of a new government.<ref name="voa"/>
On 5 January 2015, [[Nidaa Tounes]] nominated independent [[Habib Essid]] as Prime Minister and asked him to form a new government. He was chosen over former trade unionist [[Taieb Baccouche]] "because he is independent and has experience in the areas of security and the economy," said the speaker of Congress, [[Mohamed Ennaceur]]. The nomination of a politician who had served under former autocratic president [[Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali]] however was widely criticized. [[Popular Front (Tunisia)|Popular Front]] leader [[Hamma Hammami]] stated that with Essid as prime minister, "the real power" would rather be in the presidential palace.<ref>{{Cite news|url=
On 23 January 2015, Essid surprisingly presented a [[minority cabinet]] including 10 ministers from Nidaa Tounes and three from the liberal [[Free Patriotic Union]], after the other liberal power [[Afek Tounes]] was said to have abruptly pulled out of the coalition. Without Afek Tounes, the two parties could, however, only count on 102 of the 217 seats.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tunisia announces new minority government without Islamists|author=Bouazza Ben Bouazza|agency=[[Associated Press]]|url=https://news.yahoo.com/tunisia-announces-minority-government-without-islamists-161258580.html|date=23 January 2015|accessdate=27 January 2015}}</ref> Both [[Ennahda Movement|Ennahda]] and the Popular Front announced to vote against the proposed government.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tunisia new government faces resistance before ratification vote|first=Tarek|last=Amara|agency=[[Reuters]]|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/25/us-tunisia-politics-idUSKBN0KY0R520150125|date=25 January 2015|accessdate=26 January 2015}}</ref>
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