Tunisian coalition formed following last month’s election will unveil new government within days, En-Nahda party who swept the poll announced on Thursday.

Tunisian coalition formed following last month’s election will unveil new government within days, En-Nahda party who swept the poll announced on Thursday.

"The new government will be announced in a few days and not a few weeks," Samir Dillou, a leading figure in Ennahdha, said on Thursday.
"There is an agreement in principle that the defense minister will keep his place."

Samir Ben Amor, of the Congress for the Republic, a junior coalition partner, confirmed that account of negotiations on the new cabinet and said he expected it would be ready next week.

The current minister, Abdelkrim Zbidi, joined the cabinet on January 27, after the interim government was reshuffled.
Many Tunisians respect Zbidi for the military's role in helping keep order on the streets while staying out of politics in the months that followed the January 14 revolution, which forced then-President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to flee to Saudi Arabia.

Tunisia became the birthplace of the "Arab Spring" uprisings when it toppled its president this year. Since then it has made a relatively smooth transition to democracy, defying predictions that the rise of Islamists would cause conflict.

The North African country last month elected an assembly which will draft a new constitution and set new elections. The chamber will be dominated by Ennahdha party, in coalition with two secularist parties.